QUOTES by Horace
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"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)"
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"Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium"
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"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."
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"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix. (Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back, Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.)"
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"Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)"
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"You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain."
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"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. (Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)"
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"If you can realistically render a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?"
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"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."
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"A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone."
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"As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."
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"It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will."
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"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise."
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"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."
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"Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise."
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"There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed."
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"He gets every vote who combines the useful with the pleasant, and who, at the same time he pleases the reader, also instructs him."
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"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)"
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"He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."
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"Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)"
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"This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist."
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"I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious."
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"Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues."
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"You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers"
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"The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance."
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"Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed."
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"What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled."
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"How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise."
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