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Horace

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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.


— Horace


#fools #greatest #greatest lesson #know #lesson

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)


— Horace


#dust #greek #latin #life #shadow

Life is largely a matter of expectation.


— Horace


#expectation #largely #matter

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)


— Horace


#climate #nature #sky #soul #travel

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith


— Horace


#latin #philosophy #faith

he who is greedy is always in want


— Horace


#greed #satisfaction #wisdom #satisfaction

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." (Odes: I.11)


— Horace


#inspirational #life #inspirational

In love there are two evils: war and peace.


— Horace


#love #peace #war #love

Anger is a brief madness.


— Horace


#emotion #anger

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


— Horace


#living #life






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Did you know about Horace?

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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