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
common-sense genius common
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
spring book rain
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.
reform sage scales
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
children appreciate ignorant
Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.
doors errors supplies
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
light faces causes
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
lying errors mind
NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
men moral intellect
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
truth-is true-religion variance
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
men class names
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!
world causes events
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
pleasure
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
self errors rejoice
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
education apples educated
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.