About Horace
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...
More quotations from Horace
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
In Rome you long for the country; there, you praise to the skies the city you’ve just left.
More quotations tagged with “work”
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
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