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
folly greeks
For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.
among common greek-poet
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
men thinking he-man
The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.
bucket tractor
What do I do? I've got chainsaws, a tractor with a bucket and a backhoe,
country escape fugitive
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
form opportunity passing
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
home lesson mind reach saying smile spoken strikes truth wit
Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying
house safety stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
chance chosen content follow praise praises thrown
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
bids council money
Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
choose equal hard powers subject suited unable writers-and-writing
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
across change rush travel-and-tourism
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
change cross sea
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
ball regardless
Regardless of the outcome, this is still the first inning of a very long ball game.