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
art
A picture is a poem without words
long grapes
Don't long for the unripe grape.
irritation wish irritated
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
wisdom cages back-again
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
teacher want teach
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
adversity genius prosperity
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
music singing want
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
death kings men
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
work grants hard
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
money firsts get-money
Get money first; virtue comes after.
thankful future
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...
time use
Make a good use of the present.
adversity genius fortune
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
food water long
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.