Words at Play : Top 10 Latin Words to Live By
What It Means:
"the useful with the agreeable"
Where It Comes From:
In Ars Poetica, Horace offered this advice:
"He who joins the useful with the agreeable, wins every vote, by delighting and at the same time instructing the reader."
In other words, the successful poet – or more broadly, communicator – combines the edifying with the enjoyable, turns business into pleasure.
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