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Horace on Contentment
But stay! Despite your wondrous wealth and fame,
None is so sure as Plato, so rapacious—
You cannot beat, you cannot tie his game;
The grave that yawns for rich and poor is spacious.
(Translator’s Note: Q. H. was euphemistic.
They used to say. I call him socialistic.)
None is so sure as Plato, so rapacious—
You cannot beat, you cannot tie his game;
The grave that yawns for rich and poor is spacious.
(Translator’s Note: Q. H. was euphemistic.
They used to say. I call him socialistic.)
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