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
sports human-life fortune
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
life evil serenity
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
life success money
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
happy-life age world
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
life everyday gains
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
life littles slave
He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
life care lasts
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
travel happy-life sea
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
inspirational-life expectations matter
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
inspirational weight-loss control-of-your-life
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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.
one-day life-is
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
life home night
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
life rivers waiting
He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]