Horace Quotes, Writing Quotes, Foundation Quotes

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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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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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

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Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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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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Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

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Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

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The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

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