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
bowl soul troubles within
Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
sea sky soul
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
wine light soul
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
leader soul return
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
soul climate
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
gambling soul venture
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
soul relax calm
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
essence yesterday soul
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
soul tears hours
O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!
moving blood soul
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
taken soul melancholy
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
men soul conscious
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
ignorance soul ignorant
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
pain men soul
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.