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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
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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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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
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Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
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Years, following years, steal something every day At last they steal us from ourselves away.
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Never inquire into another man's secret bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
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When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
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The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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We are all compelled to take the same road from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
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