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
matter failing wells
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
humor matter jest
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
matter way easy
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
men matter courses
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
inspirational-life expectations matter
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
death matter boundaries
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
poetry matter comic
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
latin matter serious
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
decides effectual happily humorous importance jest matters
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
great guy matters victorious
Guy did a great job, I'm not angry. We were victorious that's what matters to me.
matter climate culture
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died