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
beautiful views atheism
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
glasses self vanity
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
irritation wish irritated
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
no-trust seize-the-day morrow
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
long grapes
Don't long for the unripe grape.
winning hands pleasure
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
thanksgiving gratitude being-thankful
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
adversity genius prosperity
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
running nature may
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
hate sight safe
We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
doors clients slips
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
wise men fool
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
earth graves beggar
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.