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Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace]
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his ... more »
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''Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?''
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 2, l. 38 (22-8 B.C.).
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''Anger is a brief lunacy.''
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 2 (22-8 B.C.).
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''In the word of no master am I bound to believe.''
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 1, l. 14-5 (22-8 B.C.). From the Latin, Nullius addictus iurar...
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''No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.''
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 19, l. 2 (22-8 B.C.).
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