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Whatever your advice, make it brief.

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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
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Brief

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There is nothing hard inside the olive nothing hard outside the nut.
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A greater liar than the Parthians.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
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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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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]
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