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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
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The covetous person is full of fear and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
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Whatever you teach, be brief what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
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We hate virtue when it is safe when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
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Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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Years, following years, steal something every day At last they steal us from ourselves away.
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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
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The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
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Money is to be sought for first of all virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est virtus post nummos.]
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
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