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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
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There are faults we would fain pardon.
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Dull winter will re-appear.
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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
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Nothing is swifter than rumor.
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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
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Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
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Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.
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Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
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Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
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If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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Plant no other tree before the vine.
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