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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC


You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide,... a hog from Epicurus's herd.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Satires - c. 35 BC and 30 BC Book II, satire iv, line 15.


Struggling to be brief I become obscure.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC


I am displeased when sometimes even the worthy Homer nods.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC


Misattributed - Art is long, life is short.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace


It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC


Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Epistles - c. 20 BC and 14 BC Book II, epistle ii, line 210.


To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Epistles - c. 20 BC and 14 BC Book I, epistle i, line 41.


He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC


If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC


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