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
contentment want needs
Those who want much, are always much in need.
men greed want
The covetous man is ever in want.
latin want dies
I want to live, and die with you.
want
The covetous are always in want.
war wine want
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
hands want satisfaction
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
passion want poet
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
suffering want avarice
Those who covet much suffer from the want.
teacher want teach
Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
music singing want
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
money greed want
He who is greedy is always in want.
wall greed want
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
desire want enough
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
want deny
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]