id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikiquote-org-6256 Horace - Wikiquote .html text/html 3510 459 86 Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin. If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an otherwise immaculate surface, if no one can accuse me of greed, or of prurience, or of profligacy, if I live a virtuous life, free of defilement (pardon, for a moment, my self-praise), and if I am to my friends a good friend, my father deserves all the credit... He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine." Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus. Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto ./cache/en-wikiquote-org-6256.html ./txt/en-wikiquote-org-6256.txt