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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Dismembered
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
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Luck cannot change birth.
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
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The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
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Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
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It is good to labor it is also good to rest from labor.
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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Don't long for the unripe grape.
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He is praised by some, blamed by others.
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
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