What did Horace mean by: How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. - Horace Copy
+ By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Care, Flight, Wine, 0 - Horace
+ Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Insanity, Mad, Spares, 0 - Horace
+ He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point . Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Latin, Sweet, 0 - Horace
+ There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Hard, Nuts, 0 - Horace
+ In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, 0 - Horace
+ In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Obscure, Speech, 0 - Horace
+ Hired mourners at a funeral say and do – A little more than they whose grief is true Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Funeral, Grief, 0 - Horace
+ Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast; the father’s nature lurks, and lives anew. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Caverns, Father, Parents, 0 - Horace
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
