You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Quote by Horace
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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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Horace Quotes
- Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
- It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
- 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.
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
- The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- 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.
- 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.
- The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Best Quotes
- As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
- I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
- Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
- I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
- There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
- It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
- Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
- Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
- Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
- The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'