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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
-Horace
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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.
-Horace
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Action(s)
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He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
-Horace
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
-Horace, Odes
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
-Horace
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Adversity
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
-Horace
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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
-Horace
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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
-Horace
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Advice
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
-Horace
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Ambition
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
-Horace
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
-Horace
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Anger
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anger is short madness
-Horace
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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Art
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A picture is a poem without words.
-Horace
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Authors & Writing
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You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
-Horace
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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
-Horace
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
-Horace
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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
-Horace
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
-Horace
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Books by and about Horace