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
truth moderation fortune
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.
truth care inquiry
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
home lesson mind reach saying smile spoken strikes truth wit
Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying
truth lying justice
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
truth errors joining
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
truth needs knows
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
truth science light
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
truth water mind
Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
stars truth shining
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
truth roots errors
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
truth-is true-religion variance
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
truth errors development
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
truth greatness
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale