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Horace Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Roman
Born: 65 BC
Died: 8 BC

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Select Horace Quotations

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

Don't think, just do.
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Make a good use of the present.
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace

Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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Words

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

Definitions

Achievement, Art, Book, Briefly, Call, Great, However, Into, Less, Liar, None, Nothing, Say, Something, Truth, Whole