Horace Quotes

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 instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.”

The purpose of art is to inform and delight.

I won't get left back, admitting I just don't know what I've never yet learned.

On the words of no one.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.)

A picture is a poem without words.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.