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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]
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Joking apart, now let us be serious.
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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
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Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
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Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
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Money is to be sought for first of all virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est virtus post nummos.]
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Don't long for the unripe grape.
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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
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Years, following years, steal something every day At last they steal us from ourselves away.
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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
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As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
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