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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
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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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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive enjoy the day live life to the fullest make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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The glory is for those who deserve.
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If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
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The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
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Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]
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Busy idleness urges us on.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
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