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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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And, of course, cartoonists are adding to the commentary, including Nick Anderson, whose "Men, let me tell you about the warrior ethos" cartoon is featured by by Gene Weingarten.
#Trump #Hegseth #military #ToxicMasculinity #overcompensation #MachoCosplaying
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"There was no hooting, no hollering, no one applauded. They just sat like this. Like, it was emasculating in a way that this man who desperately tries to cosplay as an alpha was seen as a beta cuck by U.S. military leaders. Like, that was, I thought literally, and them televising this, I think it was even worse."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Hegseth #military #dementia #ToxicMasculinity #overcompensation #MachoCosplaying
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"America’s toxic masculinity crisis was on full display today when Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense or, as he likes to say, Secretary of War, stood up in front of a room full of generals, admirals, and other senior military brass and lectured them about what it meant to be a real man."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Hegseth #military #dementia #ToxicMasculinity #overcompensation #MachoCosplaying
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@keithedwards.bsky.social discusses #SouthPark going SCORCHED EARTH on #DonaldTrump! As well as discusses #StephenMiller 's wife #KatieMiller revelations about their "sex life" with fellow closet case #JesseWatters. #OverCompensation thy name be 'Katie'!! youtu.be/RiZ9j_diqc4?...
Stephen Miller’s Wife SPILLS S... -
🎉 Breaking news: nerds discover the most overcompensating npm package version ever, because that's what really matters. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to revolve around slightly more important things, like, you know, everything else. 🌎✨
https://adamhl.dev/blog/largest-number-in-npm-package/ #nerdnews #npmpackage #overcompensation #techhumor #developerlife #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking news: nerds discover the most overcompensating npm package version ever, because that's what really matters. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to revolve around slightly more important things, like, you know, everything else. 🌎✨
https://adamhl.dev/blog/largest-number-in-npm-package/ #nerdnews #npmpackage #overcompensation #techhumor #developerlife #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking news: nerds discover the most overcompensating npm package version ever, because that's what really matters. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to revolve around slightly more important things, like, you know, everything else. 🌎✨
https://adamhl.dev/blog/largest-number-in-npm-package/ #nerdnews #npmpackage #overcompensation #techhumor #developerlife #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking news: nerds discover the most overcompensating npm package version ever, because that's what really matters. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to revolve around slightly more important things, like, you know, everything else. 🌎✨
https://adamhl.dev/blog/largest-number-in-npm-package/ #nerdnews #npmpackage #overcompensation #techhumor #developerlife #HackerNews #ngated -
Overcorrection: When Fixing Becomes the Flaw.
#Overcorrection #DecisionMaking #Balance #RiskManagement #BehavioralPsychology #Overcompensation #UnintendedConsequences #zsoltzsemba
https://zsoltzsemba.com/2025/06/25/overcorrection-when-fixing-becomes-the-flaw/
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@uanews Not very funny! #Hitler's relationship with Eva #Braun looked actually like an alibi. #Bandera, a little man consumed by #hate? Who knows? There was also once a silly video with #Zelensky that had a lot of #overcompensation. Who cares? One of the most important #politicians in #German history, #Frederick II, never bothered to appear #non-gay.
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CW: toxicity, addiction, abuse
Thinking today about how to engage a peer for their #addictive, #toxic, and potentially #abusive behaviors both observed and overheard from other sections of their #community.
Their fatal flaw may be the utter devaluation of self, but with a burning compulsion for validation.
They throw everything at any volunteer/leadership position, but intentionally overdo it and are frequently altered.But how might I address their #martyrdom and #overcompensation tendencies?