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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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

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He is praised by some, blamed by others.

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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

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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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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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Faults are soon copied.

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