A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all t… - Horace

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A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone.

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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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Huncine solem tam nigrum surrexe mihi

'Tis not sufficient to combine
Well-chosen words in a well-ordered line.

An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.

A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously th… - Horace

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