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
opposites trying faults
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
music faults singers
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
men faults born
No man is born without faults.
faults pardon
There are faults we would fain pardon.
faults
Faults are soon copied.
wall faults sides
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
acceptance men faults
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
poetry imperfection faults
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
wise military venture
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
running attitude talking
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
eating flavor pleasure
The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself.
asking count everyday fortune grants happen refrain
Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
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