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
teaching training
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
survival doers deeds
Deeds survive the doers.
knowledge creation
Knowledge is a mimic creation.
knowledge world firsts
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
children knowledge garden
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
knowledge brave may
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
knowledge childhood thrill
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.
truth errors joining
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
love brain crowds
Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.
love home light
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
taken literature borders
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
example easier highways
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
overcoming habit instinct
Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.
jesus real character
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.