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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.
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Nothing is achieved without toil.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
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The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
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O citizens, first acquire wealth you can practice virtue afterward.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
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Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]
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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
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Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
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The glory is for those who deserve.
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