“You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.”
Happiness
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
NatureAll Quotes by Horace
“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”
Death“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”
Experience“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”
Success“It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.”
Business“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”
Death“He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
Death“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Work“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
Trust“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.”
Art“Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.”
Future“Anger is a short madness.”
Anger“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.”
Money“A picture is a poem without words.”
Art“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.”
Death“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
Nature“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.”
Fear“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”
Alone“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”
Power“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”
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