Occupation: Poet Birth: December 8, 65 Bc Death: November 27, 8 Bc
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of vi….
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant..
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions..
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard..
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabri….
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt..
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine..
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king..
Punishment follows close on crime..
To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.].
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate..
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town..
At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome..
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.].
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead..
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders..
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others..
Better to accept whatever happens..
Fidelity is the sister of justice..
In giving advice I advise you, be short..