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Horace
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Definition:[65 - 8 BC]a Roman poet and author during the time of Octavian
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How Time doth in its flight debase
Whate'er it finds? our fathers' race,
More deeply versed in ill
Than were their sires, hath born us yet
More wicked, destined to beget
A race more vicious still.
Horace. (III, vi, 45.)
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"May I presume to ask you, sir," said Candide, "whether you do not receive a great deal of pleasure from reading Horace?" "There are maxims in this writer," answered Pococurante, "from which a man of the world may reap great benefit, and being written in energetic verse they are more easily impressed upon the memory.
Voltaire. Candide
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they shit on Horace, and that wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.433 (1970)
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