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
each-day gains morrow
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
gains approval pleasant
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
life everyday gains
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
gains use misers
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
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.
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
fate each-day gains
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
fire gains neglected
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
missing gains nonsense
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
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