Quotes by Horace

Poets wish to profit or to please.

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

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but,...

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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O imitators, you slavish herd!

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

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

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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every...

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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