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Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive enjoy the day live life to the fullest make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
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I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
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Nature is harmony in discord.
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That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
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Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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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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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
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No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
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