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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.
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There are faults we would fain pardon.
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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
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The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
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Humble things become the humble.
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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
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The same night awaits us all.
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Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?
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