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
falls force judgment
Force without judgment falls of its own weight.
fall joy birth
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
inspirational wisdom fall
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
fall fate wind
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
fall rain sea
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.
fall weight judgment
Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.
fall evil use
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
fall towers higher
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
fall grief passion
Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
fall honor fallen
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
fall wind towers
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
war fall judgement
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
fall yield law
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale