Qintus Horatius Flaccus
Ancient Rome
8 Dec -65 // 27 Nov -8
Poet
8 Dec -65 // 27 Nov -8
Poet
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise, begin
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much
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