Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recall… - Horace

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

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Ovid Virgil Juvenal Lucretius Cicero

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For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction.

Non satis est puris versum perscribere verbis.

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. - Horace

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