Horace Quotes
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
Topics
Fatalism
Impermanence
Inevitability
Mortality
Carpe Diem
Enjoying Life
Death Acceptance
Embracing Mortality
Green Fields
Life's Impermanence
Living Life to the Fullest
Living in the Moment
Making the Most of Life
Mortality Awareness
Seizing the Day
Transience
Death Inevitability
Life Fleeting
Life Brevity
Citations
Horace. Odes and Epodes. Translated by C.E. Bennett, Harvard University Press, 1914, p. 115.
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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."