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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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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
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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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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
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The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
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Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
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To teach is to delight.
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Be smart, drink your wine.
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Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
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The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]
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No man is born without faults.
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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
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In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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