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
spring hate men
My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
governors supreme
Our supreme governors, the mob.
romance
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
planning conquer easier
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
happiness believe earth
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
forgiving benefits injury
I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
wise firsts events
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
methodists bigs subjects
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
dots ink misery
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
hours found theme
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
littles circumstances vulgar
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
school power boys
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
political politics way
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
confidence mistake
In science, mistakes always precede the truth