How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down … - Horace

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

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Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus.
si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil
divitiae poterunt regales addere maius.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. - Horace

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