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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined if unasked, they never leave off.
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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
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If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
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My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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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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It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
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No one is content with his own lot.
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We get blows and return them.
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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
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To know all things is not permitted.
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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
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O citizens, first acquire wealth you can practice virtue afterward.
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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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