Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Author
Horace
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About Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by HoraceFew 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 r…
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
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.
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…
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A picture is a poem without words.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Anger is a short madness.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.