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
speakers
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
way common speak
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
speak difficult universal
It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
men speak failing
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
assisted bingo heard knew playing record speaks year
Undoubtedly, he knew a lot about offense. His record speaks for itself. I heard about a year ago when they had put him in assisted living, he was (very competitive) up there playing bingo with them old women.
audio cars cd cheaper function gm included might offered offers speakers
At this point, which function is cheaper is unclear. When GM offers XM, it's included in an audio package, with 6 speakers and a CD changer. In other cases, you might see it offered in cars for $300 or less.
men speak immortality
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of 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
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)
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
absurd birth mountains
Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
fathers though
Though guiltless, you must expiate your fathers' sins.