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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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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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I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
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