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
greek-poet time
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
time men years
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
hard-times prosperity equanimity
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
time
On day is pressed on by another.
wasting-time not-wasting-time
What has not wasting time impaired?
time use
Make a good use of the present.
adversity heart good-times
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
time yesterday mind
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
time pampering youth
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
time believe shine-on
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
time may today
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
time doe dies
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
time carpe-diem littles
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
time years plunder
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.