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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]
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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
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In trying to be concise I become obscure.
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
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Joking apart, now let us be serious.
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Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
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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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To teach is to delight.
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Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
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There is nothing hard inside the olive nothing hard outside the nut.
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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]
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