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
guilt man upright
The man of upright life, unstained by guilt
form opportunity passing
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
country escape fugitive
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
bids council money
Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
across change rush travel-and-tourism
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
change cross sea
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
house safety stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
home lesson mind reach saying smile spoken strikes truth wit
Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying
bucket tractor
What do I do? I've got chainsaws, a tractor with a bucket and a backhoe,
chance chosen content follow praise praises thrown
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
choose equal hard powers subject suited unable writers-and-writing
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
balance conditions devices disarm equalizer great hostility human men poor prevents social toward wheel
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
event prophets prove sure wisest
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first
ashamed death die mankind until victory won
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind