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
believe jew
Let Apella the Jew believe it.
anger feelings difficult
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
rumor
Nothing is swifter than rumor.
home sunset mind
I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.
mean admiration lost
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
acceptance forbidden lighters
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
use ifs mines
If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine.
guilt man upright
The man of upright life, unstained by guilt
decides effectual happily humorous importance jest matters
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
beyond sent wings words
And once sent out, words take wings beyond recall.
chief consist eating exquisite flavor pleasure seasoning
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself
greek-poet
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
brings cease future greek-poet
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
falls force judgment
Force without judgment falls of its own weight.