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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Live mindful of how brief your life is.
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An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds High towers fall with a heavier crash And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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We are deceived by the appearance of right.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
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The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
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All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
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The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]
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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
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