3 December 2020 Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
3 December 2020 Horace Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
3 December 2020 Horace The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
3 December 2020 Horace Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
3 December 2020 Horace It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
3 December 2020 Horace Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
3 December 2020 Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
3 December 2020 Horace It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.
3 December 2020 Horace You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
3 December 2020 Horace To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
3 December 2020 Horace Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
3 December 2020 Horace Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.
3 December 2020 Horace You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
3 December 2020 Horace 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.
3 December 2020 Horace The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
