Roman - Poet | 65 BC - 8 BC
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
TruthFreeYield
I teach that all men are mad.
MenMadTeach
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
GoodJudgeFaithfulHonorableEver
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
DeathWorldBirthLivedBeenWhose
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
PassionYouWillYourSubdue
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
MindBodyDownYesterdayExcess
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HateMeKeepFarIrreverentThem
Every old poem is sacred.
OldSacredPoemEvery
Poets wish to profit or to please.
WishProfitPoetsPlease
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
ManMadMakingHeEitherVerses
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
ManParentsLongBornMeritHe
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
NeverWordOnceRecalledUttered
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