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
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
done half wells
What's well begun is half done.
men hands tyrants
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
discipline levels remember
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
hurt eye years
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
inspirational adversity genius
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
sweet mind occasions
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
silence has-beens
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
genius host calamity
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
safety may moments
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
money greed want
He who is greedy is always in want.
happiness men mind
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
wise wisdom freedom
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
inspirational-life expectations matter
Life is largely a matter of expectation.