The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.
Horace"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.
HoraceAs we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
HoraceI would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
HoraceDoes he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
HoraceLet this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
HoraceIt was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
HoraceImagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.
HoraceWhy do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Horace