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
religious heaven favour
By the favour of the heavens
heaven may posse
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
heaven doe muse
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
names heaven earth
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
heaven path virtue
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]
heaven strive difficult
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
heaven destroyed my-friends
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
thinking years heaven
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
men heaven naked
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]
ambition heaven storm
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
lying believe heaven
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!
heart heaven atheism
Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.
art heaven natural
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale