Horace - It is no great art to say something b...

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Horace

Roman Poet

Died: 8 BC

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Truth, Art, Great, Achievement, Book, Liar, Nothing, Great Art, Say, Something, Writes, Like, Call, Makes, None, However, Less, Whole

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