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Sunday, May 30, 2021
Flee From Grandeur
Horace, Epistles 1.10.32-33 (tr. Colin Macleod):
Flee from grandeur: in a cottage
you can outrun, out-live kings and courtiers.
fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto
reges et regum vita praecurrere amicos.