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
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
crazy fools-and-foolishness
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
running opposites fool
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
nature foolish pitchforks
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
insanity fool sane
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
too-much fool favors
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
trying fool shame
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
opposites fool vices
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
fool shame mali
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
courage fool shame
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
wise men fool
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
fool
He can afford to be a fool.
latin play fool
It is delightful to play the fool.