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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
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You are judged of by what you possess.
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
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There is moderation in everything.
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
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Years, following years, steal something every day At last they steal us from ourselves away.
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If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
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The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
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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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A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
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The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
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