He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
HoratiusLife grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HoratiusIn peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HoratiusAs we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
HoratiusYou may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
HoratiusStruggling to be brief I become obscure.
HoratiusIf you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
HoratiusTags: advice writing latin writing-advice
What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.
HoratiusTags: publishing
Surely a Man may speak Truth with a smiling countenance.
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