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Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?
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When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.
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Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
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The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
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Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
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The covetous person is full of fear and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
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Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
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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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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
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My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
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Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
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Nature is harmony in discord.
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