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Horace - On Happiness
Identifier
012719
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintillian 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."
A description of the experience
HORACE
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all