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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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There are faults we would fain pardon.
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Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
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Sorrowful words become the sorrowful angry words suit the passionate light words a playful expression serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent iratum, plena minarum Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]
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Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
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He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
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Mistakes are their own instructors
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Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
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Whatever you want to teach, be brief.
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A picture is a poem without words
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Little folks become their little fate.
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