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Horace

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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.


— Horace


#darkness #discover #door #must #myriads

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.


— Horace


#experience #instruction #life #name #parent

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.


— Horace


#grows #his #lean #man #neighbor

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.


— Horace


#carvings #durable #foolish #like #quickly

The pen is the tongue of the mind.


— Horace


#pen #tongue

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.


— Horace


#anything #been #conceded #daring #fancy

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.


— Horace


#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.


— Horace


#free #himself #man #then #who

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?


— Horace


#grasp #harass #mind #purposes #them

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.


— Horace


#contented #contented mind #every #every man #happiness






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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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