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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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There are faults we would fain pardon.
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Get money by just means. if you can if not, still get money.
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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
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High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
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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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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
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Busy idleness urges us on.
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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
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What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.
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There is nothing hard inside the olive nothing hard outside the nut.
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An accomplished man to his fingertips.
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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
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