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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
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Joking apart, now let us be serious.
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Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
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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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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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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
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There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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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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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
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O citizens, first acquire wealth you can practice virtue afterward.
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