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
add tomorrow helping
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
giving asking tomorrow
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
may looks tomorrow
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
inspirational seize-the-day tomorrow
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
add tomorrow ifs
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
latin tomorrow capture
Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.
opportunity today tomorrow
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
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.