Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling car
the obscure no less than the noble.
Horatius
Born: December 8, 66 BCE Died: November 27, 9 BCE
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.
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Alternative Names for Horatius
Birth name - Original name given at birth:
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Latin (la))
Primary canonical name - The main standardized name:
- Horace (English (en))
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
(Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts
Si, sine amore iocisque nil est iucundum, vivas in amore iocisque.
You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.
The story is told of yourself.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Mingle a dash of folly with your wisdom.
Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
If you wish people to weep, you must weep first.
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A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone.