Be modest in speech, but excel in action. Horace View this quote
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. Horace
Horace
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings. Horace
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest. Horace
Poets wish to profit or to please. Horace
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. Horace
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Horace
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. Horace
The arrow will not always find the mark intended. Horace
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. Horace
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king. Horace
Roman lyric poet
65 - 8BC
