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
among common greek-poet
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
food common hungry
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
way common speak
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
way common individual
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.
common eating empty
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
politics common economy
It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
according act best bless common given goodness happiness philosophy submit wisdom
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
common-sense common uncommon
Common sense is very uncommon.
wisdom common-sense moments
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
common-sense genius common
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)