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
self culture virtue
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?
self discipline mind
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
confidence self-confidence self
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.
conceited race self
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
glasses self vanity
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
mean humble self-confidence
By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.
self redemption dry
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
vanity self impossible
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
self errors rejoice
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
helping-others helping self-help
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
perseverance sacrifice self
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
heart helping-others self
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
college men self
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale