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Horace

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Leave the rest to the gods.


— Horace


#leave #rest

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.


— Horace


#eye #kept #least #literary #nine

Make a good use of the present.


— Horace


#make #present #use

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.


— Horace


#drinkers #live #long #please #poems

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.


— Horace


#give #last #long #nor #pleasure

O imitators, you slavish herd!


— Horace


#imitators #slavish #you

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.


— Horace


#common things #feels #hungry #only #rarely

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.


— Horace


#hut #impartial #kings #knocks #pale

Poets wish to profit or to please.


— Horace


#poets #profit #wish

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.


— Horace


#subdue #will #you #your






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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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