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
wise strong freedom
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
death years lasts
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
death kings feet
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
anniversary unbroken unions
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
time pampering youth
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
time believe shine-on
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
time may today
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
time doe dies
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
time carpe-diem littles
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
fall wind towers
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
time years plunder
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
life time believe
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
latin wicked temptress
One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
ambition heaven storm
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.