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
fate hands names
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
fate destiny men
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
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.
book fate today
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
fate gains granted
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
fate littles folks
Little folks become their little fate.
fate each-day gains
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
fate cottages pace
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
real fate reflection
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
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)
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment