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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
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The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
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A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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You are judged of by what you possess.
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It is good to labor it is also good to rest from labor.
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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
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You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
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He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.
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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
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Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
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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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A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.
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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
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