Horatius

Famous quotes containing the word horatius:

“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

“Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune’s pow’r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach’rous shore.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

“This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)