Horace

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)

Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful read more

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation