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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets ratifies and confirms our hopes thrusts the coward forth to battle eases the anxious mind of its burden instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
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If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
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Force without reason falls of its own weight.
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An accomplished man to his fingertips.
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The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
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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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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
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By the favour of the heavens
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Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove but things which affect your mind you defer.
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]
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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
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