Horace Quote Analysis

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” Horace is telling us that, with difficulties has the effect to draw out from someone a reaction to one’s natural abilities or skills, in flourishing financially relevant to an event past would have lie in a deep sleep. This quote, that horace stated, is inspiring because he is telling us as not a reader, but as a person. That making, who you want to be, is your decision nobody else's. It's your character you're in command. I am defending what, Horace is saying from and about this quote. Horace’s life as a poet, during the reign of Augustus Caesar, was bit a difficult. After, claiming to have fled a battle he lost in 42 B.C. he had hit a rough patch in his life. He lost almost everything and his career was over. But, Agustus reassured him and the other defeated soldiers as well. This quote, explained his life in perfect words. Horace would write and write for days, he would lay awake at night thinking. Horace told his stories through books he had published, during, his time that he was alive. Making people see who, his character was, which showed through his writings, poems and quotes. When, a person has hardships in their lifetime; it builds them up for what is coming, but they lain dormant. Like a fork in the …show more content…
You may think it's a mistake, but really it isn’t. When tragedy or misfortune strikes, the adversities awake from their lain dormant. You think the world is not in your favor anymore, you push everyone away, but with that one tragedy, it is indeed the, start of your character, your life. I have had a mindset like that before, I felt, like world was upside down and turned around. But, I had my parents to help guide me, back on my path. The thoughts of a person and their abilities shows their character; that is what Horace is telling us that from this