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
management anger-management madness
Anger is short-lived madness.
anger passion madness
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
anger madness momentary
Anger is a momentary madness.
anger men lawyer
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
anger rage lunacy
Anger is a brief lunacy.
anger madness
Anger is a short madness.
anger feelings difficult
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
anger believe musical personally politics
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
anger passion giving
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.
approval greek-poet pleasant
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
disgrace greek-poet keeps
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
discover greek-poet passed returns road strange travel
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.