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
caring fowl care
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
care riches consumerism
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
greed care wealth
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
mind care bats
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
care bowls
The bowl dispels corroding cares.
mind care morrow
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
care wealth accumulation
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
wine care flight
By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
truth care inquiry
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
wine care vino
Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
inspire care able
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
life care lasts
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
desire care riches
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
writing care authorship
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]