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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Anger is a momentary madness.
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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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Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]
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Humble things become the humble.
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Those that are little, little things suit.
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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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A pauper in the midst of wealth.
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Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
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Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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