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
woods dolphins painting
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
hero differences oratory
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
men opinion fine
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
littles nonsense now-and-then
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.
lowest highest
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
music play strings
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
leader soul return
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
justice modesty found
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
gains use misers
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
boys luxury persian
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
life care lasts
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
mean limits virtue
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
laughter men laughing
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
judging doe corruption
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.