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• Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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  Father, Oxen, Agriculture

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• In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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  Opposites, Vices, Fool

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• The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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  Inspirational, Welcome, Hours

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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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  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book II. 1. 262,

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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  Greed, Care, Wealth

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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  Politics, Common, Economy

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• Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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  Latin, Wrinkles, Years

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• He, that holds fast the golden mean,
  And lives contentedly between
  The little and the great,
  Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
  Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
  Imbitt'ring all his state.

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  Mean, Men, Doors

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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  Food, Common, Hungry

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

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  Littles, Nonsense, Now And Then

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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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  Men, Remember, Ridicule

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• Never without a shilling in my purse.

  Horace

  Purses

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• Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
  [Lat., Tristia maestum
  Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum;
  Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

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  Light, Expression, Passionate

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• What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

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  Secret, Battle, Doe

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• No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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  Food, Water, Long

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• Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

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• Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

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  Fire, House, Danger

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• In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

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  Home, Evil, Shrews

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• Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

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  Corn, Grind, Eating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

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• A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

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  Travel, Shoes, Feet

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• The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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  Latin, Bulls, Horns

  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
  [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
  Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

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  Hate, Sight, Safe

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• Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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  Men, Pleasure, Profession

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• In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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  War, Two, Evil

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• Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

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  Love, Passion, Advice

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