ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]
Tags: michel-de-montaigne on-solitude
Si, sine amore iocisque nil est iucundum, vivas in amore iocisque.
HoratiusClogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HoratiusYou may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.
HoratiusIt is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Tags: happiness
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
HoratiusTags: philosophy faith latin
Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously.
HoratiusAnger is a brief madness.
Horatiushe who is greedy is always in want
HoratiusTags: wisdom contentment greed satisfaction
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HoratiusTags: life-and-death
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