“You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.” MenHardHappinessSufferingNamesPovertyDisgraceHappy Man Author:Horace
“Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]” MovingJusticeFlightWickedPace Author:Horace
“He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]” SufferingGoalBoysColdBearsLaborHeatHeat And Cold Author:Horace
“Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]” UseLawImmortality Author:Horace
“The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.” LifeHomeNightLengthShade Author:Horace
“He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]” LifeWaitingHoursForeverOughtRiversCrossesRustic Author:Horace
