What did Horace mean by: Even virtue followed beyond reason’s rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. - Horace Copy
+ Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Royalty, 0 - Horace
+ Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Care, Desire, Riches, 0 - Horace
+ When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Cups, Desire, Gold, 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
+ Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, Kings, 0 - Horace
+ Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Increase, Riches, Wicked, 0 - Horace
+ Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Employed, Ridicule, 0 - Horace
+ It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Common, Speak, 0 - Horace
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. - Frank Waters Writer
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. - Gamaliel
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. - Lord Byron Poet · England
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
