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
doors clients slips
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
hate sight safe
We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
literature
Leave the rest to the gods.
adversity port resolve
A good resolve will make any port.
glasses self vanity
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
wise knowledge being-wise
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
despair
Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]
light expression passionate
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]
change nice years
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
mean envy golden
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
hours pleasure enjoy
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
imagination wish looks
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
courage stress valiant
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
adversity challenges mind
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.