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.
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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![Horace Quote - He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/he-will-often-have-to-scratch-his-head-and-bite-hi.jpg)
