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
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I think it's beginning to be very successful; it was always viewed as a long-term project,
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch
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I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.
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He did not say many words. He was very happy.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Life is getting ready to hit them upside the head. If you think losing to Florida is bad try to get married, raise a family and pay the bills. Being in college is about trying to develop a philosophy and trying to develop goals about how you want to attack life.
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This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the Academy will announce this year's winner.
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When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
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A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
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There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.