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
avoid cottage favourites greatness happiness kings
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
kings real greatness
Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
kings children earth
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
kings play people
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
death art kings
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
kings bliss court
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
death kings men
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
death kings towers
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
friends wise kings
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
god kings next
Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.
death kings feet
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
kings feet giving
If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
kings years curiosity
When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.
religious kings husband
King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.