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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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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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I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
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That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
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There is nothing hard inside the olive nothing hard outside the nut.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
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Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
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Now is the time for drinking now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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You are judged of by what you possess.
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
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A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]
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