Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul. Horace climate soul Money amassed either serves us or rules us. Horace This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. Horace wisdom prayer spring Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms. Horace hug storm sea I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods. Horace garden land spring That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else. Horace corners-of-the-world corners world The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. Horace hazards ashes fire Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. Horace superfluous mind advice Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. Horace sea rain fall No man is born without faults. Horace faults born men He is praised by some, blamed by others. Horace He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. Horace same-mistakes ridiculous mistake No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. Horace duty men My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. Horace inclination age Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. Horace lightning mountain strikes Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. Horace morrow care mind He tells old wives' tales much to the point. Horace old-wives-tales tales wife He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. Horace his-love wealth grows Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] Horace assistance extremes cases He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. Horace preserves doe men
