Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

Opposites

Horace, Epistles 1.18.89-90 (tr. Colin Macleod):
Gaiety irks the gloomy, gloom the cheerful,
speed the slow, and laziness the busy.

oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque iocosi,
sedatum celeres, agilem navumque remissi.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:54 AM


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