Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.


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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE
When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE
There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE
What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE
I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
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