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
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
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Since then his chair has been vacant, with the exception of three or four casual visits, mostly on holidays.
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Life is getting ready to hit them upside the head. If you think losing to Florida is bad try to get married, raise a family and pay the bills. Being in college is about trying to develop a philosophy and trying to develop goals about how you want to attack life.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first
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Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
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This is a big opportunity. I've got to try to go out there and do more, and I have no problem with that. I'm a person who refuses to fail.
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The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes
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As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ... (Now,) I have to make sacrifices every day (as a business owner).
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We have a very strict discipline now. No documents leave the building and the (Academy) members are not allowed to discuss the choice by email or with members of their family. So far this year, I have not seen any sign that there is a leak,
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I'll probably have more fun messing with the judges than the referees.
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In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last
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Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,