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
pride purpose vices
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
art poetry sacred
Every old poem is sacred.
men blessing use
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
worry anxiety eulogy
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
dull capture reader
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
courage fool shame
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
winning hands pleasure
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
no-trust seize-the-day morrow
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
adversity heart good-times
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
beautiful views atheism
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
yield sloth laziness
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
care take-care translate
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
new-beginnings deeds-done addiction
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.