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
time yesterday mind
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
mean writing bears
Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
latin mind path
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
moon new-moon dies
Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
inspirational positive success
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
inspirational seize-the-day tomorrow
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
wisdom book
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
inspirational life thinking
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
moral-lessons lessons moral
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
speakers
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
mind purpose persuasion
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
evil age wickedness
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
contentment want needs
Those who want much, are always much in need.
believe independence masters
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.