“I made these little verses, another took the honor.”
Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.
Virgil (-70–-19 BC) Ancient Roman poet
Epigram attributed to Virgil in Donatus' Life of Virgil.
Attributed
“Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.”
On peut être honnête homme et faire mal des vers.
Act IV, sc. i
Le Misanthrope (1666)
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