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.
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
artful cost forming instead management recommend words
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
guilt man upright
The man of upright life, unstained by guilt
decides effectual happily humorous importance jest matters
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
greek-poet
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
cruel kindly mother strive sweet
I am not what I was when kindly Cinara was queen. Strive no more, cruel mother of sweet loves.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
absurd birth mountains
Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
pleasure profit reader vote won
He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.
bids council money
Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
form opportunity passing
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.
creations modern remarkable safe
I think it is safe to say that 'Soul Mountain' is one of the most remarkable creations of modern literature, not only in Chinese.