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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
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The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]
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I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
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God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
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In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
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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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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
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The bowl dispels corroding cares.
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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
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