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Don't waste the opportunity.

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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
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O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?
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Live mindful of how brief your life is.
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
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There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
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Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
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Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
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Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
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Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
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I am doubting what to do.
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Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?
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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
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Don't long for the unripe grape.
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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
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Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
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Wisdom at times is found in folly.
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Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
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