Be modest in speech, but excel in action. Horace View this quote
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. Horace
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country. Horace
It is not permitted that we should know everything. Horace
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. Horace
It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while. Horace
Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate’er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe. Horace
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. Horace
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. Horace
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain. Horace
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. Horace
Roman lyric poet
65 - 8BC
