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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
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As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.
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In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
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Tear thyself from delay.
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.
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Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.
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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
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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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Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
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Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.
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Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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It is not permitted that we should know everything.
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Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
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Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
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