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
brother kings plymouth
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.
memories reflection men
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
coal fuel sun
The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
age might purity
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.
ambition feet necks
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
future greatness men
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
taken soul melancholy
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
funny-friend people want
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
taste half being-true
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
thinking tragedy world
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
weed garden people
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
foolish reader
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
friendship dog betrayed
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
truth lying justice
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.