Horace

There are faults we would fain pardon.

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A greater liar than the Parthians.

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“Carpe diem." (Odes: I.11)”

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Little folks become their little fate.

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The bowl dispels corroding cares.

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“Faults are soon copied.”

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Don't waste the opportunity.

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Wisdom at times is found in folly.

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Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

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Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

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I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

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Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus…

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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

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Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in…

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Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to…

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Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those…

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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor…

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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his…

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“Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturus, neque te ut miretur turba labores. Ktheje penen shpesh, kur te duash gjera…

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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the…

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more…

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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…

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He who is greedy is always in want.

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To grow a philosopher's beard.

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A pauper in the midst of wealth.

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

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An accomplished man to his fingertips.

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Don't just think, do.

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Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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Get money first; virtue comes later.

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