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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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O citizens, first acquire wealth you can practice virtue afterward.
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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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In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
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This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
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The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds High towers fall with a heavier crash And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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The words can not return.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
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Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
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He's arm'd without that's innocent within Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.
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