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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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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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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
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That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
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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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Mistakes are their own instructors
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God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
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Busy idleness urges us on.
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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
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If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
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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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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, I have lived. Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
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Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
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The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
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