In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

About Horace

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( HORR-iss), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the...

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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

More quotations tagged with “adversity”

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

—Henry Fielding

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

—Henry Fielding

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

—French Proverb

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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