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
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.
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.
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
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
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment