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Quotes by Horace
- I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
- It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
- 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.
- It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
- It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
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