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
wine worry smooth
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
wine law dry-up
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
procrastination tears delay
Tear thyself from delay.
hate i-hate irreverent
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
wall doors fire
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
littles suits action
Those that are little, little things suit.
gains approval pleasant
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
sloth wicked sirens
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
ocean heart firsts
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
humor matter jest
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
self discipline mind
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
mind praise greedy
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
trying fool shame
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
succeed sat stills
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.