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
country sweet patriotic
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
war fall judgement
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
stars ambition strikes
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
strong wine boys
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.
book men poet
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
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.
rumor
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
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.
chief consist eating exquisite flavor pleasure seasoning
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself