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 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.
hero night agamemnon
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
running nature danger
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
mean envy golden
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
world birth unnoticed
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
justice fidelity
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
confidence self-confidence self
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.
littles suits action
Those that are little, little things suit.
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
gains approval pleasant
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
graves dies
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.