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
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.
running teaching mind
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
mind enough fine
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
self discipline mind
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
teaching mind vim
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
mind praise greedy
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
reality order mind
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.
mind care bats
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
mind body down-and
The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
mind care morrow
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
mind force strikes
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.