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
self culture virtue
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?
vices fleeing virtue
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
littles virtue economy
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
gold silver virtue
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
hate sin virtue
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
gold silver virtue
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
vices virtue avoiding
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
virtue wraps
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
heaven path virtue
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]
sin virtue refrain
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
secret virtue pleasure
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
mean limits virtue
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
honor riches virtue
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
arms study virtue
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.