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
beyond sent wings words
And once sent out, words take wings beyond recall.
guilt man upright
The man of upright life, unstained by guilt
decides effectual happily humorous importance jest matters
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
country escape fugitive
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
form opportunity passing
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
bucket tractor
What do I do? I've got chainsaws, a tractor with a bucket and a backhoe,
change cross sea
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
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?
across change rush travel-and-tourism
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
bids council money
Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
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
house safety stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
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.
goes good iq
When you get good players, a coach's IQ goes up. I've got to get better players.