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• There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

  Horace

  Mean, Limits, Virtue

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

  Horace

  Integrity, Wraps

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• There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

  Horace

  Grief, Disease, Accents

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• Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

  Horace

  Enjoy, Present Day

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• The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

  Horace

  Stars, Science, Sun

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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• Labor diligently to increase your property.

  Horace

  Literature, Increase, Labor

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• Those that are little, little things suit.

  Horace

  Littles, Suits, Action

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• O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

  Horace

  Practice, Citizens, Firsts

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• A man of refined taste and judgment.

  Horace

  Men, Taste, Refined

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• What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

  Horace

  Wealth, Enjoy, Ifs

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• Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

  Horace

  Ability, Equal, Wells

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• He can afford to be a fool.

  Horace

  Fool

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• I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace

  Heart, Humanity, Victory

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• Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

  Horace

  Book, Men, Poet

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• Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

  Horace

  Ambition, Heaven, Storm

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• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

  Horace

  Judging, Judgement, Internet

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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

  Horace

  Nonsense, Now And Then, Pleasant

  "Odes". Book by Horace, IV. 12. 27, 13 BC.

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• Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

  Horace

  Desire, Care, Riches

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• There is a middle ground in things.

  Horace

  Latin, Middle, Middle Ground

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• Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
  whatever days fortune will give, count them
  as profit.

  Horace

  Giving, Asking, Tomorrow

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• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

  Horace

  Peace, War, Fall

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• The man is either mad or his is making verses.
  [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

  Horace

  Men, Mad, Poet

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• Who guides below, and rules above,
  The great disposer, and the mighty king;
  Than He none greater, next Him none,
  That can be, is, or was.

  Horace

  God, Kings, Next

  Horace (1684). “The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace: Done Into English”, p.18

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