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
grief men limits
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
grief joy morrow
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
grief disease accents
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
grief funeral littles
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
grief grieving wish
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
grief firsts emotion
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
fall grief passion
Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
grief ambition hands
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
children grief heart
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
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)