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
men shoes stories
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
men hands giving
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
men fingertips accomplished
An accomplished man to his fingertips.
greatness men brightness
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
grief men limits
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
men car wheels
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
men may knaves
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
men preference
There are as many preferences as there are men.
men years mortality
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
wisdom men world
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
crazy writing men
The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
fate destiny men
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
art men preparation
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
men greed want
The covetous man is ever in want.