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
opportunity
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
adversity opportunity giving
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
opportunity may lasts
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
latin opportunity waste
Don't waste the opportunity.
form opportunity passing
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
community direction district great help opportunity work
It's great to have the opportunity to be able to come to Diboll and work with the community and work with the children, and be able to go into another direction and help the district excel.
strong loss opportunity
Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
loss opportunity knowing
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
ball force opportunity presents
You can't force anything, but when the opportunity presents itself, if the ball was in my hands, I was going to do it.
opportunity today tomorrow
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
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)