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
mad insanity spares
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
anger madness momentary
Anger is a momentary madness.
men mad insanity
I teach that all men are mad.
poet madmen fellows
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
made eloquent bowls
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
ordinary made wells
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
patience may made
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
madness
Anger is brief madness
mad insanity majority
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
men mad poet
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]
madness momentary
Anger is momentary madness.
mad fixed method
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
management anger-management madness
Anger is short-lived madness.
anger passion madness
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.