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
spoken-word written-word recalls
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]
faults
Faults are soon copied.
limits fixed
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
blow return
We get blows and return them.
all-things
There is measure in all things.
lying opposites two
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
sour turns vessel
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
anxiety hopes-and-fears
Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.
men favour court
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
friendly helping assistance
Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
poverty turns beggar
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
nuts olives hard
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
half finished
Who's started has half finished.
perfect perfect-happiness
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.