“Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.” SoulBodyEarthDivineEssenceYesterdayVarietyAppetiteExcessGuestsPaleParticlesSupperPuzzledSated Author:Horace
“Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]” WritingSourceFoundationGood WritingAuthorship Author:Horace
“Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]” WritingAbilitySubjectsAuthorship Author:Horace
“Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]” YearsWrittenAuthorship Author:Horace
“Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]” IfsWritingCareTurnsWorthyAuthorshipStiles Author:Horace
“With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.” PeopleMayEvidenceBrilliantPlatoPlato SHaughtiness Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]” WritingWellsMeanBearsQuantityToilAuthorshipWriting Well Author:Horace
“He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.” ReasonLostVirtueStudyArmsFortunePostsWealthyAvariceDeserted Book:The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes Source: The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes
“Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).” MenNightLostDivinePoetBraveryBraveDeedsBrave ManChroniclesForteAgamemnon Author:Horace
