Horace Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Christian, Life And Love

• When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

  Horace

  Latin, Voice, Together

• Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

  Horace

  Lying, Talent, Dormant

• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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