What did Horace mean by: Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. - Horace Copy
+ Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow’s span to this day’s sum? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Tomorrow, 0 - Horace
+ It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Teenager, 0 - Horace
+ Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Royalty, 0 - Horace
+ He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Envy, Love, 0 - Horace
+ Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things! Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Accepting, Hours, 0 - Horace
+ Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Bliss, Court, Kings, 0 - Horace
+ For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Honor, Influence, Riches, 0 - Horace
+ Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Being Thankful, Gratitude, Thanksgiving, 0 - Horace
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. - Jean Meslier Priest · France
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Catholic priest and theologian · France
