Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HoraceAll singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
HoraceThe foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
HoraceI have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
Horace