Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Quote by Horace

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But...

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But...

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by...

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by...

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his...

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his...

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose...

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose...

When nature made you, they broke the mold - rumor has it they beat the...

When nature made you, they broke the mold - rumor has it they beat the...

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Men cease to think when they think they know it all.

Men cease to think when they think they know it all.

Money is a handmaiden if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress if thou...

Money is a handmaiden if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress if thou...

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their...

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their...

We are free to yield to truth.

We are free to yield to truth.

Mistakes are their own instructors

Mistakes are their own instructors

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing...

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing...

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

A wise man puts aside 10 percent of the money he gets - and 90...

A wise man puts aside 10 percent of the money he gets - and 90...

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.