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
work race employment
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
wise wisdom men
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
stars truth shining
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
truth roots errors
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
god religious taken
Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
fashion dresses middle
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
medicine criticism mercury
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
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.