Horace Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Use Quotes

If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

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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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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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We are free to yield to truth.

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The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

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To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

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Faults are soon copied.

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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

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There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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