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  1. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth #worry #anxiety

  2. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth #worry #anxiety

  3. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth #worry #anxiety

  4. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit
    Sperne voluptate.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth #worry #anxiety

  5. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth #worry #anxiety

  6. A quotation from Horace

    Of lingering and gain-seeking make an end;
    Think, while there’s time, how soon Death’s pyre may blaze;
    And some brief folly mix with prudent ways:
       At the fit hour ’tis sweet to unbend.
     
    [Verum pone moras et studium lucri
    nigrorumque memor, dum licet, ignium
    misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
    dulce est desipere in loco.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 12, l. 25ff (4.12.25-28) (13 BC) [tr. Marshall (1908)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/73650/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #business #carpediem #celebration #death #enjoyment #folly #foolishness #holiday #mortality #party #revelry #seizetheday #silliness #vacation #work #workaholic

  7. A quotation from Mark Twain

    How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it!

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905-12), “Eve’s Diary,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 1

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/28734/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #eve #contentment #credit #deserve #deserving #earn #enjoyment #fulfillment #gratification #happiness #pleasure #result #satisfaction #work

  8. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 2 “Byronic Unhappiness” (1930)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/764…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #enjoyment #eternallife #boredom #eternity #freshness #immortality #joy #living #livingwell #mortality #repetition