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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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Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
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I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
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Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]
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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
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