A quotation from Horace

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes
trembles when it goes.
 
                    [Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae,
mutatae quatient.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/28181/

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Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 "To Aristius Fuscus," l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] - Horace | WIST Quotations

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes trembles when it goes. [Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae, mutatae quatient.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Who so was to much ravished and to much joy did take In flow of wealth, him chaunge of flow yea to much shall yshake.…

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