“Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?”
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Famous Horace Quotes
“The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.”
“Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]”
“He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.”
“Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?”
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
“What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.”