Horace Quotes
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.
[Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis
Cautum est in horas.]
Citations
Horace. Odes and Epodes. Translated by Niall Rudd, Harvard University Press, 2004, p. 137.
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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."