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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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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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No master can make me swear blind obedience.
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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
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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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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
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