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Horace

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.


— Horace


#clogged #down #drags #excess #mind

Every old poem is sacred.


— Horace


#old #poem #sacred

Fidelity is the sister of justice.


— Horace


#justice #sister

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.


— Horace


#everyone #gains #mixes #pleasant #useful

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.


— Horace


#been #birth #death #lived #unnoticed

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.


— Horace


#deed #done #half #made #who

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.


— Horace


#brass #innocent #screen #thy #wall

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.


— Horace


#foot #half #his #long #words

He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.


— Horace


#begun #dare #done #half #who

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.


— Horace


#i #i write #never #nobody #same






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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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