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
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died
pride purpose vices
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
patience humble pride
Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.
death fear pride
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
approval greek-poet pleasant
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
disgrace greek-poet keeps
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
discover greek-poet passed returns road strange travel
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
greek-poet struggle
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
fear great greek-poet man pleasant seems tried
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
greek-poet time
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
among common greek-poet
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
fit fortune greek-poet large shoe small trips
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.