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
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
fear great greek-poet man pleasant seems tried
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
artful cost forming instead management recommend words
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
men every-man
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
management anger-management madness
Anger is short-lived madness.
men hands he-man
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
men thinking he-man
The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.
guilt man upright
The man of upright life, unstained by guilt
ashamed death die mankind until victory won
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
compensate given humor humorous imagination man
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
advice events forget good injuries man
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once
men white-man age
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
important use mankind
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
men rights white-man
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.