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 parent firsts
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
happiness laughter silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
fall honor fallen
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
doe littles slave
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
judging justice faithful
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
latin welcome hours
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.
latin arguing
The grammarians are arguing.
inspirational grateful care
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
trust eye mind
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
father oxen agriculture
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
thinking may shoulders
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
running travel sea
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
mistake instructors
Mistakes are their own instructors
thinking looks lasts
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.