What did Horace mean by: Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. - Horace Copy
+ He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Time, 0 - Horace
+ A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Judging, Justice, Umpires, 0 - Horace
+ It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Charm, Enough, Mind, 0 - Horace
+ Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Poetry, 0 - Horace
+ Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Book, Poet, 0 - Horace
+ The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Heaven, Praise, 0 - Horace
+ Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Fiction, 0 - Horace
+ However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Desire, Imperfect, 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 well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, ‘is he well-born?’ 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
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
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
