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- homo sacer is est quem populus iudicavit ob maleficium; neque fas est eum immolari, sed qui occidit parricidi non damnatur.
- We cannot wish that any work or class of works which has exercised a great influence on the human mind, and which illustrates the character of an important epoch in letters, politics, and morals, should disappear from the world. If we err in this matter, we err with the gravest men and bodies of men in the empire, and especially with the Church of England, and with the greatest schools of learning which are connected with her. The whole liberal education of our countrymen is conducted on the principle, that no book which is valuable, either by reason of the excellence of its style, or by reason of the light which it throws on the history, polity, and manners of nations, should be withheld from the student on account of its impurity. The Athenian Comedies, in which there are scarcely a hundred lines together without some passage of which Rochester would have been ashamed, have been reprinted at the Pitt Press, and the Clarendon Press, under the direction of syndics and delegates appointed by the Universities, and have been illustrated with notes by reverend, very reverend, and right reverend commentators. Every year the most distinguished young men in the kingdom are examined by bishops and professors of divinity in such works as the Lysistrata of Aristophanes and the Sixth Satire of Juvenal. There is certainly something a little ludicrous in the idea of a conclave of venerable fathers of the church praising and rewarding a lad on account of his intimate acquaintance with writings compared with which the loosest tale in Prior is modest. But, for our own part, we have no doubt that the great societies which direct the education of the English gentry have herein judged wisely. It is unquestionable that an extensive aquaintance with ancient literature enlarges and enriches the mind. It is unquestionable that a man whose mind has been thus enlarged and enriched is likely to be far more useful to the state and to the church than one who is unskilled, or little skilled, in classical learning. On the other hand, we find it difficult to believe that, in a world so full of temptation as this, any gentleman whose life would have been virtuous if he had not read Aristophanes and Juvenal will be made vicious by reading them. A man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influences of a few Greek or Latin verses, acts, we think, much like the felon who begged the sheriffs to let him have an umbrella held over his head from the door of Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzling morning, and he was apt to take cold.
The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue, a virtue which can expose itself to the risks inseparable from all spirited exertion, not a virtue which keeps out of the common air for fear of infection, and eschews the common food as too stimulating. It would be indeed absurd to attempt to keep men from acquiring those qualifications which fit them to play their part in life with honour to themselves and advantage to their country, for the sake of preserving a delicacy which cannot be preserved, a delicacy which a walk from Westminster to the Temple is sufficient to destroy.- Lord Macaulay, Essay on Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Works of Wycherley, &c.
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[edit]- The greatest sense in our body is our touch sense. It is probably the chief sense in the processes of sleeping and waking; it gives us our knowledge of depth or thickness and form; we feel, we love and hate, are touchy and are touched, through the touch corpuscles of our skin.
- J. Lionel Taylor, The Stages of Human Life (1921) p. 157
- Quoted in Ashley Montagu, Touching the Human Significance of the Skin, 2nd ed. (1977) ch. 1 [3]
The Satires (Latin: Saturae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace. Published probably in 35 BC and at the latest, by 33 BC, the first book of Satires represents Horace's first published work. The second book was published in 30 BC as a sequel.
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[edit]Book I
[edit]- Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.- What is to prevent one from telling truth as he laughs, even as teachers sometimes give cookies to children to coax them into learning their A B C?
- No. 1, l. 23 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, 1926)
- Quid referat intra
naturae finis viventi, iugera centum an
mille aret?- What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
- No. 1, l. 49 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, 1926)
- Bona pars hominum decepta cupidine falso
"nil satis est" inquit, "quia tanti quantum habeas sis."- People are enticed by a desire which continually cheats them.
"Nothing is enough," they say, "for you're only worth what you have." - No. 1, l. 62 (tr. Niall Rudd, 1973)
- People are enticed by a desire which continually cheats them.
- Sit finis quaerendi, cumque habeas plus,
pauperiem metuas minus et finire laborem
incipias, parto quod avebas.- Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. As your wealth increases
your fear of poverty should diminish, and having got what you wanted
you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. - No. 1, l. 92 (tr. Niall Rudd, 1973)
- Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. As your wealth increases
- Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.- Seldom can we find one who says he has had a happy life, and who, when his time is sped, will quit life in contentment, like a guest who has had his fill.
- No. 1, l. 117 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, 1926)
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- Nam fuit ante Helenam cunnus taeterrima belli
causa.- For even before Helen the cunt was the most dreadful cause of war.
- No. 3, l. 107 (tr. Kirk Freudenburg, 1993)
- With savages, for instance the Australians, the women are the constant cause of war both between members of the same tribe and between distinct tribes. So no doubt it was in ancient times; "nam fuit ante Helenam mulier teterrima belli causa." (Charles Darwin, 1874)
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- Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint
scripturus.- Often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading.
- No. 10, l. 72 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, 1926)
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Book II
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[edit]- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2nd ed. (1874) vol. 2, ch. 19, p. 561
- H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires · Epistles · The Art of Poetry, LCL 194 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926) — Fairclough's Latin text used for all quotations on this page
- Kirk Freudenburg, The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993) p. 26
- Niall Rudd, The Satires of Horace and Persius (London: Harmondsworth Press, 1973)