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
girl acting tragedy
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
comedy english-author life tragedy
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
comedy tragedy
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
comedy tragedy
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
comedy english-author tragedy
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
suffering tragedy delay
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
character passion tragedy
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
writing laughing tragedy
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
thinking tragedy world
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
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