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
wise military venture
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
wise writing thinking
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
wise future darkness
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
wise character passion
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
wise war men
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
wise future darkness
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
wise knowledge being-wise
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
wise wisdom freedom
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
motivational positive wise
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
wise men fool
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
friends wise kings
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
wise strong freedom
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
event prophets prove sure wisest
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first
wise firsts events
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.