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Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
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False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
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The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, I have lived. Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
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Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
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