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
madness
Anger is brief madness
noble wealth descent
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
honor riches wealth
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
riches wealth
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
pleasure source
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
painting
A poem is like a painting.
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?