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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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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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A picture is a poem without words
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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
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It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Books have their destinies.
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What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.
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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Anger is a short madness.
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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
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There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
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