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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Dull winter will re-appear.
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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
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We hate virtue when it is safe when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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We are free to yield to truth.
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]
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Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
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Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
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There is nothing assured to mortals.
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Tear thyself from delay.
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Never inquire into another man's secret bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
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Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
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