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Horace
Roman
Poet
Died:
8 BC
He
Life
Man
Will
You
Your
Related authors:
Ausonius
Juvenal
Lucan
Lucretius
Ovid
Phaedrus
Virgil
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Horace
Fire
Neighbor
Concern
Wall
Your
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
Horace
Remember
Stay
Steep
Things
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace
You
Advice
Whatever
Give
Short
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace
Word
Once
Has-Been
Allowed
Been
Escape
Cannot
Recalled
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace
Too
Those
Apt
Trip
Small
Feet
Does
Pinch
Shoe
Them
Fortune
Large
Whose
Suit
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace
Become
Strive
Obscure
Brief
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
You
Soul
Hurts
Remove
Year
Eye
Hasten
Postpone
Something
Until
Affects
Cure
Anything
Which
While
Next
Your
Next Year
Why
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
Truth
Free
Yield
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
Wish
Profit
Please
Poets
Make a good use of the present.
Horace
Good
Make
Use
Present
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
Think
Carefully
Ability
Bearing
Equal
Subject
May
Refuse
Capable
Shoulders
Your
Choose
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
Made
Half
Beginning
He
Done
Deed
Who
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
Horace
Good
Gay
Once
Good Thing
Foolishly
While
Thing
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Horace
Nine
Eye
Least
Years
Literary
Public
Public Eye
Your
Kept
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
Money
Thou
Mistress
How
Use
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Horace
Business
Fire
Wall
Door
Next
Next Door
Your
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace
Will
Matters
Badly
Always
Go
Now
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace
Pleasant
Everyone
Approval
He
Gains
Useful
Who
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace
Fools
Faults
Run
Opposite
While
Shun
Set
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace
Man
Too
Trips
Small
Like
Him
Does
Fit
Up
Shoe
Story
Fortune
Large
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Horace
Country
Sweet
Die
Thing
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Horace
You
Will
Fathers
Atone
Sins
Your
Dad
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace
Death
World
Birth
Has-Been
Unnoticed
He
Badly
Been
Lived
Whose
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace
Others
Minds
Tender
Disgrace
Often
Vice
Keeps
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace
Man
Long
Parents
Be A Man
Born
He
Merit
Consequence
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Horace
Good
Writing
First
Sense
Parent
Good Sense
Both
Good Writing
Principal
Source
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