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.
approval greek-poet pleasant
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
disgrace greek-poet keeps
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
discover greek-poet passed returns road strange travel
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
greek-poet struggle
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.