What did Horace mean by: Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. - Horace Copy
+ Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Art, Equal, Poet, 0 - Horace
+ Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Bliss, Court, Kings, 0 - Horace
+ Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Guilt, Pale, Wall, 0 - Horace
+ In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Death, 0 - Horace
+ Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Drinking, Earth, Feet, 0 - Horace
+ If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Knowledge, 0 - Horace
+ The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, Courage, Law, Race, 0 - Horace
+ He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace, 0 - Horace
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. 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
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
