What did Horace mean by: Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. - Horace Copy
+ The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Snow, 0 - Horace
+ That I make poetry and give pleasure – if I give pleasure – are because of you. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Pleasure, Poetry, 0 - Horace
+ Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Guilt, Pale, Wall, 0 - Horace
+ A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Cages, Wisdom, Wise, 0 - Horace
+ Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Envy, Golden, 0 - Horace
+ You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Natural, 0 - Horace
+ The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Begging, Earth, Graves, 0 - Horace
+ The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Body, Excess, Mind, 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
