Quote of Quintus Horatius Flaccus - They change the sky, not their...
Biography - Quintus Horatius Flaccus:
Roman lyric poet.
Born: -65 - Died: -8
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Italy
Born: -65 - Died: -8
Period:
1st century BC
Place of birth: Italy
They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.
Note
Epistles 1,11,27
Quote source: Epistles
Translation
(German, French, Latin)
Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
See also...
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Quotes about heaven:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Quotes about change:
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
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