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• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

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  Pain, Pleasure, Despise

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• Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

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  Suffering, May, Poverty

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• Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

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  Men, Hands, He Man

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• All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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  Men, Opinion, Fine

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 569-70, Epistles, II. 2. 58, 1922.

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• A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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  Humor, Matter, Jest

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• Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

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  Courage, Ambition, Loss

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

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• Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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  Leader, Soul, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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• If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

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  Justice, Records, World

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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  Judging, Doe, Corruption

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 411-412, ("Satires", Book II. 2. 8), 1922.

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• Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

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  Track, Lame, Legs

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• Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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  Envy, Competition, Crow

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• I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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  Order, Poetry, Tribes

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• His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.

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  Excited, Hours

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• All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

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  Names, Heaven, Earth

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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  Fire, Fields, Ferns

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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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  Thieves, Poor, Owners

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• This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

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  Prayer, Garden, Land

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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  Horse, Envy, Lazy

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• Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.

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  Fall, Joy, Birth

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• Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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  Enough, Sufficiency, Asks

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Epistles, I. 2. 46, 1922.

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• Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

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  Men, Sage, May

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• How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

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  Littles, Virtue, Economy

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• Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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  Anger, Men, Literature

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• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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  Wine, Dry Up, Smell

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