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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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There is a middle ground in things.
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Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
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Sorrowful words become the sorrowful angry words suit the passionate light words a playful expression serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent iratum, plena minarum Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]
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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
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He who is greedy is always in want.
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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.
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I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici Expertus metuit.]
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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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If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
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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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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
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He is praised by some, blamed by others.
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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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