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
advice
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
men shoes stories
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
religious heaven favour
By the favour of the heavens
playing-games drunk enough
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
art liars lying
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
prison caught
It is grievous to be caught.
stars science sun
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
wall guilt pale
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
wall fire neighbor
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
wall innocence innocent
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
thinking philanthropy
Don't just think, do.
inspirational welcome hours
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
art greek phrases
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
men hands giving
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.