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Horace

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.


— Horace


#alone #books #derived

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.


— Horace


#cease #day #forth #future #gift

Don't think, just do.


— Horace


#think

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.


— Horace


#ears #entrusted #gossips #hear #inquisitive

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


— Horace


#capable #carefully #choose #equal #may

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.


— Horace


#own #safety #stake #wall #your

A word once uttered can never be recalled.


— Horace


#once #recalled #uttered #word

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.


— Horace


#grants #hard #hard work #life #mortals

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?


— Horace


#anything #cure #eye #hasten #hurts

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.


— Horace


#fools #into #opposite #run #set






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Some of his iambic poetry has seemed repulsive to modern audiences. Life
Most of what we know about Horace comes from a short biography probably written by Suetonius (Vita Horati) and from Horace's own poetry. In that case young Horace could have felt himself to be a Roman though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a Samnite or Sabellus by birth.

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Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Sermones and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). His poetry became "the common currency of civilization" and he still retains a devoted following despite some loss of popularity after World War I (perhaps due to mistrust of old-fashioned patriotism and imperial glory with which he had become associated). Some of his iambic poetry has seemed repulsive to modern audiences.

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