Horace Quotes
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard University Press, 1926, p. 317.
The effect of the discovery of oil has in the 20th and 21st produced this negative result and others as well. This was not only true on foreign countries but Texas was a good example in America.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
