Qintus Horatius Flaccus
Ancient Rome
8 Dec -65 // 27 Nov -8
Poet
8 Dec -65 // 27 Nov -8
Poet
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Strength without judgment falls by its own weight
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails
Remember to be calm in adversity
Pleasure bought with pain does harm
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert
One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness
No man is born without faults
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of its owner
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