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
grief funeral littles
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
judging judgement guilty
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
humor matter jest
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
statistics born resources
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
self discipline mind
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
grief disease accents
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
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.
grove
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
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.
father sunshine sky
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
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