“Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]”
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“Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.”
“Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.”
“He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.”
“He is praised by some, blamed by others.”
Source: The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace
“He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.”