Horace Quotes, Reality Quotes, Order Quotes

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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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

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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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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

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You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

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Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

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