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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
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Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
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Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
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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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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]
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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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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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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.
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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
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High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
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