A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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Horace Quotes
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
- Anger is a short madness.
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
- We are free to yield to truth.
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
- Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
- Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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