Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
HoratiusTags: patriotic
Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."
If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Tags: classics latin ancient-rome horace
Carpe diem."
(Odes: I.11)
Tags: carpe-diem
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HoratiusCease to ask what the morrow
will bring forth,
and set down as gain
each day that fortune grants.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HoratiusThis is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.
HoratiusAdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
HoratiusHappy 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 shine
the 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.
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").
HoratiusTags: completion ability
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