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
wisdom men world
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
world birth unnoticed
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
happy-life age world
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
justice records world
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.
world corners-of-the-world corners
That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
world body pestilence
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
lying world facts
God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.
rumor world nine
Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
men west world
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
life world comedy
This world is a comedy, not Life.
respect philosophy world
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
exercise world gunpowder
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
thinking tragedy world
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
love world
Love must be the same in all worlds.