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
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
love envied
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
laughter joy love-and-laughter
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
country country-love able
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
sweet love-making despise
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
his-love wealth grows
He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
life without-love ifs
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
love excellence religion
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
love failure thinking
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
love world
Love must be the same in all worlds.
love brain crowds
Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.
love home light
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
love children growing-up
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
love-is age blind
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.