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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.
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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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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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Amiability shines by its own light.
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
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The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
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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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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
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Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.
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