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
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
artful cost forming instead management recommend words
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
deal great poet tribe
I put up with a great deal to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
bowl soul troubles within
Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
crazy fools-and-foolishness
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
avoid cottage favourites greatness happiness kings
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
brings cease future greek-poet
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
labor mountains mouse ridiculous
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
falls force judgment
Force without judgment falls of its own weight.
fond illusion mock
Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?
chief consist eating exquisite flavor pleasure seasoning
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself
form opportunity passing
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
bids council money
Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
house safety stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze