Be modest in speech, but excel in action. Horace View this quote
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food. Horace
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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness. Horace
A person will gain everyone’s approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. Horace
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. Horace
A word once uttered can never be recalled. Horace
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. Horace
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce. Horace
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. Horace
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. Horace
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. Horace
Roman lyric poet
65 - 8BC
