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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