Horace Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC
Birthday: December 8
Death: November 27
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
source: Horace (1717). “The Odes & Satyrs of Horace, that Have Been Done Into English by the Most Eminent Hands...: With His Art of Poetry...To this Ed. is Added Several Odes Never Before Published”, p.189
topic: Men, Law, Judging, Laws And Rules, Greatest Man
