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
inspirational welcome hours
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
hours accepting gladness
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
hours
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
excited hours
His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.
hours pleasure enjoy
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
latin welcome hours
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.
men enough hours
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]
american-educator both diamond golden gone hours reward somewhere sunrise
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
soul tears hours
O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!
hours found theme
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
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)