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
doe thorns ifs
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed
ifs
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
giving propriety ifs
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
dresses fine ifs
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
wealth enjoy ifs
What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
mistress use ifs
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
men doe ifs
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
flames ifs disregarded
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
add tomorrow ifs
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
life without-love ifs
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
use ifs mines
If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine.
bad-company obliged ifs
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
failing temperance ifs
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale