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
moving exercise effort
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
mouths tiny ants
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
art drawing tests
Drawing is the true test of art.
art poet equal
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
jobs half sensible
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
calumny-is innocence calumny
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
caring fowl care
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
guilt pale clear-conscience
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
heaven may posse
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
horse eagles brave
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.
liars doe alarms
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
girl acting tragedy
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
carpe-diem remember-you remembers-you
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
sloth sirens laziness
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.