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
running attitude talking
While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
running opposites fool
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
running teaching mind
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
death running law
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
running wine water
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
running nature danger
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
running may needs
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
running nature may
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
running travel sea
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
running courage procrastination
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
candidates figure running
Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,
running free-thought seeds
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
running children race
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
girl running distance
It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.