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Brief Quotes by Horace
- Anger is a brief lunacy.
- The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
- In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
- Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
- Whatever your advice, make it brief.
- When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
- Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
- The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
- [So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
- It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
- I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
- Anger is a brief madness.
- Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
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