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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
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A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]
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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
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While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.
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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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Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe
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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
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Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
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Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
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Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
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The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
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Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
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He is praised by some, blamed by others.
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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
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