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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
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Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
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The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.
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In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
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You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
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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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You are judged of by what you possess.
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Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
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If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
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Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
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Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
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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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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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Now is the time for drinking now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
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