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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
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Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets ratifies and confirms our hopes thrusts the coward forth to battle eases the anxious mind of its burden instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
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Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
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He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
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You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
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Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
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There are faults we would fain pardon.
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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
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I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.
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It is good to labor it is also good to rest from labor.
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The grammarians are arguing.
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