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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
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A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
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Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.
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It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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We hate virtue when it is safe when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
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Dull winter will re-appear.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
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Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
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