Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace quote Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace quote Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace quote Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace quote Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Horace quote No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace quote Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace quote Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace quote Biography
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Roman poet, 65 - 8 BC
