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Horace

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.


— Horace


#does #feet #fortune #large #pinch

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.


— Horace


#conceals #genius #prosperity #reveals

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.


— Horace


#crosses #hour #like #living #out

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.


— Horace


#fit #fortune #him #large #like

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

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.


— Horace


#brief #i #obscure #struggle

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.


— Horace


#fire #neighbor #wall #your

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.


— Horace


#education #injustice #knowledge #without

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.


— Horace


#little #lovely #mix #moment #plans

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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