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
wall powerful gold
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.
power fancy poet
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
art powerful wine
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
powerful blow rocks
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.
money powerful giving
All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
choose equal hard powers subject suited unable writers-and-writing
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
men power wind
Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.
school power boys
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
knowledge humans human-power
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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)
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment