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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
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By the favour of the heavens
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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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Tear thyself from delay.
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In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
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There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]
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Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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