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
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
men wish purses
The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]
imagination wish looks
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
irritation wish irritated
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
latin wish belts
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
grief grieving wish
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
wish poet profit
Poets wish to profit or to please.
teacher teaching wish
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
writing wish study
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
labor mountains mouse ridiculous
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
crazy fools-and-foolishness
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
avoid cottage favourites greatness happiness kings
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
bowl soul troubles within
Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul