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.
inspirational wisdom fall
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
inspirational adversity genius
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
inspirational-life expectations matter
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
inspirational adversity genius
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
inspirational grateful care
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
inspirational weight-loss control-of-your-life
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
inspirational positive success
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
inspirational seize-the-day tomorrow
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
inspirational life thinking
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
inspirational faith humor
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
inspirational encounters mental-strength
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
inspirational life money
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
inspirational night sky
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.