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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
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Those who want much, are always much in need happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
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I shall not altogether die.
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The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king.
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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
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Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.
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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
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Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
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To grow a philosopher's beard.
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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
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He is praised by some, blamed by others.
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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
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The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
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