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A quotation from Horace

Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
 
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

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. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

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A quotation from Horace

Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
 
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

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. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #brevity #briefness #counsel #edification #keepitsimple #lesson #maxim #moral #moralizing #precept #succinct #teaching #wisdom

A quotation from Horace

Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
 
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

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. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #brevity #briefness #counsel #edification #keepitsimple #lesson #maxim #moral #moralizing #precept #succinct #teaching #wisdom

A quotation from Horace

Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
 
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

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. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #brevity #briefness #counsel #edification #keepitsimple #lesson #maxim #moral #moralizing #precept #succinct #teaching #wisdom

A Precept For The New Year

My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #precept #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #precept #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #precept #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

My New Year's thought one year ago. This year, too.

https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #hermitpractice, #NewYears, #precept #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

A Precept For The New Year

Right action isn't optional for Buddhists.

http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-precept-for-new-year.html

#Buddhism, #EightfoldPath, #enlightenment, #HeidiLiFeldman, #hermitpractice, #NewYear, #precept, #vow, #Zen

Sometimes showing up for others means accepting that maybe some can't do the same, or at least not to the same extent. If they actually can and don't, #ShameOnThem, but that's #NotMyBusiness, right? I can lead by example, and hope they follow.

I hope I come to have the grace to live by this #Precept more than I do now, and I hope to have the #Wisdom to decide when not to.

There's a fine line between #MindingMyOwnBusiness and #Complicity. I'll do my best to do my best about it.

#Thoughts