What did Horace mean by: Your property is in danger when your neighbour’s house is on fire. - Horace Copy
+ Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Busy, Inertia, 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
+ He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Mistake, Ridiculous, Same Mistakes, 0 - Horace
+ My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Care, Inquiry, Truth, 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
+ How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Economy, Virtue, 0 - Horace
+ Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Opportunity, 0 - Horace
+ Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Art, Powerful, Wine, 0 - Horace
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. - William Morris Designer · England
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? - Michel Foucault Philosopher and historian of ideas · France
