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
love failure thinking
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
morning sleep night
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.
life wisdom thinking
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
life learning secret
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
music children would-be
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
dozen use express-yourself
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
love world
Love must be the same in all worlds.
office machines knows
To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
fall yield law
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.
knowledge ignorance miracle
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
pain thrill nerves
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
should-have opposites race
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.
men soul conscious
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
people musical taught
Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.