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
useless deeds wealth
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
fall evil use
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
use
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
gains use misers
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
poverty use poor
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]
use firsts poet
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
time use
Make a good use of the present.
men blessing use
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
mistress use ifs
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
law use immortality
Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
money use fortune
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
knowledge use impart
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
use ifs mines
If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine.
important use mankind
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.