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
thinking people busy
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
believe jew
Let Apella the Jew believe it.
anger feelings difficult
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
home sunset mind
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.
mean admiration lost
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
acceptance forbidden lighters
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
use ifs mines
If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine.
cruel kindly mother strive sweet
I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
beyond sent wings words
And once sent out, words take wings beyond recall.
chief consist eating exquisite flavor pleasure seasoning
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself
decides effectual happily humorous importance jest matters
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
greek-poet
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
brings cease future greek-poet
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.