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
eye procrastination mind
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
mind may
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
mind cheerful bitter
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
depressing mind body
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
adversity challenges mind
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
sweet mind occasions
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
happiness men mind
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
trust eye mind
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
time yesterday mind
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
latin mind path
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
mind purpose persuasion
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
sick funeral mind
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
art secret mind
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
blessing mind
That best of blessings, a contented mind.