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• Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

  Horace

  Conceited, Race, Self

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• Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

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  Grief, Funeral, Littles

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Life gives nothing to man without labor.

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  Life, Men, Giving

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• The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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  Time, Years, Plunder

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

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  Adversity, Gale, Prosperity

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• Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

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  Men, Hands, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Carmina, III. 16. 42, 1922.

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• Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Grateful

  "The Works of Horace".

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• The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
  [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

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  Fool, Shame, Mali

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• Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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  No Trust, Seize The Day, Morrow

  Odes bk. 1, no. 11, l. 7

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• The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
  [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
  A dis plura feret.]

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  Want, Deny

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• Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

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  Mad, Fixed, Method

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• It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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  Matter, Way, Easy

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• The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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  Arrows, Mark

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• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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  Family, Parent, Dowry

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• I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
  [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
  Favete linguis.]

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  Hate, Distance, Silence

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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 horas.]

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  Men, Hours, Enough

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

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  Inspirational, Anger, Irritation

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• A good resolve will make any port.

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  Adversity, Port, Resolve

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• Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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  Fiction, Should, Please

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• Music is an incitement to love.

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  Incitement, Music Is

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• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

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  Recovery, New Beginnings, Deeds Done

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
  [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
  Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
  Nec sumit aut ponit secures
  Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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  Knowing, Shining, Doe

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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  Communication, Silence, Words We Speak

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 71, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

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  God, Humble, Proud

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