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
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
art secret mind
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
passion wine secret
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
secret virtue pleasure
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
secret battle doe
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
wine men secret
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
wine wrath secret
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
inspiration secret want
Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.
life learning secret
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
men good-man secret
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
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)