Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
![Horace Quote - Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/who-prates-of-war-or-want-after-his-wine-lat-quis-.jpg)
![Horace Quote - Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/pale-death-with-impartial-step-knocks-at-the-hut-o.jpg)
