Qintus Horatius Flaccus
Ancient Rome
8 Dec -65 // 27 Nov -8
Poet
8 Dec -65 // 27 Nov -8
Poet
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom
Life is largely a matter of expectation
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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