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
latin people house
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
kings play people
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
people royalty monarchs
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
eye men people
The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
thinking people busy
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
literary people point
I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.
people joy musical
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
war two people
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
fashion silly people
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.
people giving doe
Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.
funny-friend people want
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
weed garden people
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
people musical taught
Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.
government mad people
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.