Horace
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Biography
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly 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 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."
"A picture is a poem without words."
"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"
"Rule your mind or it will rule you."
"Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."
"Pactum serva"- "Keep the faith"
"he who is greedy is always in want"
"Quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima."
"What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?"
"Bona pars hominum est decepta cupidine falso 'nil satis est', inquit, 'quia tanti quantum habeas sis."
"Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis."
"in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello"
"Adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat."
"Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus"
"Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae."
"Bellaque matribus detestata"
"Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam."
"Nunc vino pellite curas."
"Permitte divis cetera."
"O matre pulchra filia pulchrior"
"Virginibus puerisque canto."
"Vis consili expers mole ruit sua."