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
giving advice
Whatever advice you give, be short.
anger passion madness
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
writing foundation source
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
thinking sorrow each-day
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
inspirational weight-loss control-of-your-life
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
forgiveness grants offense
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
time yesterday mind
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
mean writing bears
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
latin mind path
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
moon new-moon dies
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
inspirational positive success
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
inspirational seize-the-day tomorrow
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
wisdom book
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
inspirational life thinking
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.