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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
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We get blows and return them.
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What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
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Don't long for the unripe grape.
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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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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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Never inquire into another man's secret bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
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There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
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A greater liar than the Parthians.
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Mistakes are their own instructors
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
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It is not permitted that we should know everything.
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