He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
¶ (Attributed)
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Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Num tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet.
[When your neighbor's wall is on fire, it becomes your business.]
¶ (Attributed)
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
¶ (Attributed)
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
¶ (Attributed)
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
¶ (Attributed)
Anger is a short madness.
¶ (Attributed)
To know all things is not permitted.
¶ (Attributed)
Nemo adeo ferus est ut non mitescere possit.
[No-one is so savage that he cannot soften.]
¶ (Attributed)
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
[Seize the day, leave as little as possible to tomorrow.]
¶ Carmina, I.xi
Nunc est bibendum.
[Now it’s time for drinking.]
¶ Carmina, I.xxxvii.1
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all unwept and unknown they sleep in endless night, for they had no poets to sound their praises.
¶ Odes
A host is like a general. It takes a mishap to reveal his genius.
¶ Satires, Book II, Satire 8 (35 BC)
Quid rides? Mutato nomine, fabula de te narratur.
[Why are you laughing? Just change the name, and the story could be told of you.]
¶ Saturæ, I.i.69
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