Horace Quotes
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Topics
Mental Health
Procrastination
Self-Awareness
Physical Pain
Next Year
Delayed Action
Emotional Hurt
Emotional Well-Being
Immediate Relief
Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health Counseling
Mental Health Support
Mental Health Treatment
Pain Avoidance
Self Care
Self-Reflection
Soul Care
Spiritual Harm
Citations
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard UP, 1926, p. 263.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."