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
gains use misers
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
boys luxury persian
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
life care lasts
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
mean limits virtue
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
laughter men laughing
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
judging doe corruption
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
secret battle doe
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
battle crime ancestor
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
punishment crime
Punishment follows close on crime.
sports war wrath
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
tree vines plant
Plant no other tree before the vine.
travel happy-life sea
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
stupid men lessons-to-be-learned
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
trust carpe-diem odes
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.