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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( HORR-iss), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). 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."

Quotes from Horace

In Rome you long for the country; there, you praise to the skies the city you’ve just left.

A picture is a poem without words.

words poetry art photography

Don't think, just do.

action change thought

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

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