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Horace Quotes about Grief

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

"Ars Poetica" by Horace, v. 102, c. 19 BC.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries