What did Horace mean by: If virtue holds the secret, don’t defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her. - Horace Copy
+ Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Ancestry, Battle, Crime, 0 - Horace
+ Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Faults, Sides, Wall, 0 - Horace
+ Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Greatness, Kings, 0 - Horace
+ One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, Night, Path, 0 - Horace
+ Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, Feet, Kings, 0 - Horace
+ God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, God, Humble, Proud, 0 - Horace
+ While we’re talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Fleeing, Talking, 0 - Horace
+ The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Contemplating, Treasure, 0 - Horace
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
