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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
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Horatius Flaccus
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Dismembered
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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
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There are faults we would fain pardon.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
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To have begun is half the job be bold and be sensible.
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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
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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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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
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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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Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
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