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
nature way pitchforks
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
nature foolish pitchforks
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
doors return human-nature
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
nature pitchforks nevertheless
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
running nature danger
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
nature harmony discord
Nature is harmony in discord.
running nature may
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
nature science natural
Education is only second to nature.
mean raw-materials human-nature
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.
cutting choices human-nature
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
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
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)