Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
arrows guilt defense
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
cheer father taken
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
men lasts degrees
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
ifs
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
latin return can-not
The words can not return.
latin doe example
Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.
latin dies
I shall not completely die.
latin
No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.
latin blind obedience
No master can make me swear blind obedience.
sweet latin
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
latin night
The same night awaits us all.
latin glory deserve
The glory is for those who deserve.
latin people house
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
latin want dies
I want to live, and die with you.