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
inspirational grateful care
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.
trust eye mind
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
father oxen agriculture
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
thinking may shoulders
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
running travel sea
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
mistake instructors
Mistakes are their own instructors
thinking looks lasts
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
courage adversity blood
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
giving advice
Whatever advice you give, be short.
anger passion madness
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
writing foundation source
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
thinking sorrow each-day
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
inspirational weight-loss control-of-your-life
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
forgiveness grants offense
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.