Horace, Ars Poetica 335

~ sententiaeantiquae

“Whatever you are teaching, be brief . . .”

quidquid praecipies, esto brevis

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

And he goes on: “. . . so that impressionable minds may readily understand what you’ve said, and hold fast to it”

 

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