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
anger men lawyer
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
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.
arrows guilt defense
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
each-day gains morrow
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
political fickle vote
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
environment refinement force
Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
work obscure recreation
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
father injustice sin
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.