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
one-day life-is
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
No one is content with his own lot.
add tomorrow ifs
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
wings peaceful black
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
light shining
Amiability shines by its own light.
essence yesterday soul
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
endeavour circumstances
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
worthy difficulty intervention
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
protector
The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]
bows doe apollo
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]
eye years mind
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]
mind appearance animus
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
depressing yesterday mind
The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]
money mean stills
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.