Horace Quotes


A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.


Citations

Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard University Press, 1926, p. 319.

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Horace
  • Born: December 8, 0065
  • Died: November 27, 0008
  • Nationality: Roman
  • Profession: Soldier

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), 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."