+ One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Different, Errors, 0 - Horace
+ Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Eye, Literature, 0 - Horace
+ It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, 0 - Horace
+ No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Duty, 0 - Horace
+ A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Common, Eating, Empty, 0 - Horace
+ He’s arm’d without that’s innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Innocence, Literature, Wall, 0 - Horace
+ If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Nature, 0 - Horace
+ He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, Suicide, 0 - Horace
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France