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
philosophy educational helpful
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
fate destiny men
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
sloth wicked sirens
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
sullen modesty silent
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
gay sorrow sorrowful
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
opposites trying faults
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
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.
anger madness
Anger is a short madness.
trying fool shame
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
reality order mind
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.
succeed sat stills
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.