Horace Quotes


With equal pace, impartial Fate
Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.


Citations

Horace. The Odes of Horace. Translated by Philip Francis, Harper & Brothers, 1835, p. 19.

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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."