id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_149 horace-works_149 .txt text/plain 586 27 78 He praises a country before a city life, as more agreeable to nature, and more friendly to liberty. We, who love the country, salute Fuscus that loves the town; in this point alone[ being] much unlike, but in other things almost twins, of brotherly sentiments: whatever one denies the other too[ denies]; we assent together: like old and constant doves, you keep the nest; I praise the rivulets, the rocks overgrown with moss, and the groves of the delightful country. If we must live suitably to nature, and a plot of ground is to be first sought to raise a house upon, do you know any place preferable to the blissful country? So he who, afraid of poverty, forfeits his liberty, more valuable than mines, avaricious wretch, shall carry a master, and shall eternally be a slave, for not knowing how to use a little. ./cache/horace-works_149.txt ./txt/horace-works_149.txt