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
foolish reader
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
friendship dog betrayed
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
truth lying justice
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
love failure thinking
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
morning sleep night
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.
life wisdom thinking
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
life learning secret
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
music children would-be
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
dozen use express-yourself
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
love world
Love must be the same in all worlds.
office machines knows
To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
fall yield law
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.
knowledge ignorance miracle
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
pain thrill nerves
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.