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
patience sorrow may
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
patience can-not hard
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
life without-love ifs
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
life past guests
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
life privacy
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
life past men
That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.
knowledge use impart
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
kings feet giving
If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
wealth midst
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
water stones durability
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
gratitude cheer blessed
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.
gossip ears inquisitive
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
congratulations men neighbor
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
wine mean light
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.