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
war wine hardship
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
drinking feet earth
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
justice records world
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.
life everyday gains
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
memories men recollection
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
father parent caverns
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
love passion
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
inspirational wisdom fall
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
shoes feet suits
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
advice scare good-advice
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
men charity helping
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
fall fate wind
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
opportunity
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
time men years
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)