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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]
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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
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He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses) but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
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Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.
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At Rome I love Tibur then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
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The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
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