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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
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I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]
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He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
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The same night awaits us all.
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Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Mistakes are their own instructors
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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The question is yet before the court.
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Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
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Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.
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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
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The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
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No man is born without faults.
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We are free to yield to truth.
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To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
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