WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/77207/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote>Now listen while I show you, how the rest<br>Who call you madman, are themselves possessed.<br>Just as in woods, when travellers step aside<br>From the true path for want of some good guide,<br>This to the right, that to the left hand strays,<br>And all are wrong, but wrong in different ways,<br>So, though you’re mad, yet he who banters you<br>Is not more wise, but wears his pigtail too.<br> <br> <i>[Nunc accipe, quare<br>desipiant omnes aeque ac tu, qui tibi nomen<br>insano posuere. Velut silvis, ubi passim<br>palantis error certo de tramite pellit,<br>ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum abit, unus utrique<br>error, sed variis inludit partibus: hoc te<br>crede modo insanum, nihilo ut sapientior ille<br>qui te deridet caudam trahat.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Horace</b> (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones],</i> Book 2, # 3, <i>“Si raro scribes,”</i> l. 46ff (2.3.46-53) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/77207/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/77207/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=horace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=craziness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>craziness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>error</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=folly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folly</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fool</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=foolishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foolishness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humancondition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humancondition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=insanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=madness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>madness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mistake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mistake</span></a></p>