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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Leave the rest to the gods.
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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
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Don't just think, do.
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Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?
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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
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Money is to be sought for first of all virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est virtus post nummos.]
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Wisdom at times is found in folly.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, I have lived. Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
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I shall not altogether die.
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What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Whatever you teach, be brief what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
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Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
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Amiability shines by its own light.
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