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
death kings men
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
work grants hard
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
money firsts get-money
Get money first; virtue comes after.
thankful future
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...
time use
Make a good use of the present.
adversity genius fortune
Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
food water long
No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.
pride purpose vices
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
art poetry sacred
Every old poem is sacred.
men blessing use
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
worry anxiety eulogy
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
dull capture reader
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
courage fool shame
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.