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  1. A quotation from Horace

    Smiles are contagious; so are tears; to see
    Another sobbing, brings a sob from me.
    No, no, good Peleus; set the example, pray,
    And weep yourself; then weep perhaps I may.
     
    [Ut ridentibus adrident, ita flentibus adflent
    humani voltus. Si vis me flere, dolendum est
    primum ipsi tibi: tum tua me infortunia laedent,
    Telephe vel Peleu.]

    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. 101ff (2.3.101-103) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83327/

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