Horace Quotes, Giving Quotes, Liberty Quotes

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

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

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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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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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

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He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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We get blows and return them.

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He will be beloved when he is no more.

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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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It is grievous to be caught.

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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.

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Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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