Horace Quotes
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. O imitators, you slavish herd! Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Poets wish to profit or to please. Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
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