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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
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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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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.
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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
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What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.
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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
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It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
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The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
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What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
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Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
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