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Horace Biography

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrəs/ or /ˈhɔːrəs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). 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."[nb 1]

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The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Dislike, Gay, Sorrow, Sorrowful

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

Like, Love, Rome, Tibur, Weathercock

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

Boy, Boys, Luxury, Persian

I shall not completely die.

Completely, Die, Dies, Latin

Now, that's enough. [Lat. , Ohe! jam satis est. ]

Enough, Jam, Ohe, Satis, Satisfaction

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

Art, Equal, License, Poet, Regard

One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat. , Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti. ]

Awaiting, Death, Night, Semel, Way

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

Old Wives Tales, Point, Tales, Wife, Wives

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Accents, Assuaged, Disease, Grief, Words

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

Different, Existing, Men, Pursuit

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Affect, Eye, Mind, Procrastination

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived. " Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Cheer, Father, Happy, Heavenly, Life, Sunshine

The dispute is still before the judge.

Dispute, Disputes, Judge, Judging, Latin

The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat. , Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae. ]

Animum, Depressing, Divinae, Loaded, Mind, Yesterday

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

Crazy, Man, Men, Poet, Writing

Luck cannot change birth.

Birth, Change, Luck

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Effectively, Humor, Importance, Jest, Matter, Seriousness

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Music, Musician, Play, Plays, String, Strings

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Abroad, Flies, Irrevocably, Literature, Sent, Word

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

Brave, Eagles, Horse, Horses, Peaceful, Sire

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