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
eye procrastination mind
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
procrastination tears delay
Tear thyself from delay.
running courage procrastination
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
procrastination letters alphabet
Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
procrastination putting-things-off impossible
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
asking count everyday fortune grants happen refrain
Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
fathers though
Though guiltless, you must expiate your fathers' sins.
approval greek-poet pleasant
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
disgrace greek-poet keeps
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
discover greek-poet passed returns road strange travel
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
greek-poet struggle
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.