Horace - Gods Quotes

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Do not try to find out—we're forbidden to know—what end the gods may bestow on me or you.

Horace

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Horace

You rule because you hold yourself inferior to the gods.

Horace

A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods.

Horace

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets being second-rate.

Horace

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Horace