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
winning hands pleasure
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
no-trust seize-the-day morrow
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
adversity heart good-times
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
beautiful views atheism
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
yield sloth laziness
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
care take-care translate
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
new-beginnings deeds-done addiction
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
done half wells
What's well begun is half done.
men hands tyrants
When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
discipline levels remember
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
hurt eye years
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
inspirational adversity genius
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
sweet mind occasions
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.