Horace Quotes
Anger is a short madness.
Citations
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard UP, 1926, p. 265.
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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."