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• With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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  Sweet, Should, Ready

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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  Sloth, Wicked, Laziness

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• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

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  Grief, Literature, Firsts

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• All things considered, nothing is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, All Things

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• Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
  [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

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  Money, Mean, Honest

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• In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

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  Life, Dawn, Care

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• Change generally pleases the rich.
  [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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  Change, Vices, Rich

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• All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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  Music, Singers, Faults

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• Amiability shines by its own light.

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  Light, Shining

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• Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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  Advice, Mind, Superfluous

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• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

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  Wall, Business, Fire

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

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• Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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  Men, Poetry, Mediocrity

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Lines 372 - 373, c. 18 BC.

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• Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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  Fear, Contentment, Atheism

  Horace (1961). “Odes and Epodes: In the original Latin and in English translations”

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• Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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  Excellence, Sometimes, Excellent

  Ars Poetica l. 359

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• The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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  Poet, Madmen, Fellows

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• One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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  Errors, Different, Different Directions

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 236-37, Satires, II. 3. 50, 1922.

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• What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

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  Doe, Thorns, Ifs

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, II. 2. 212, 20 BC.

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• It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

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  Country, Sweet, Latin

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• Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

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  Inspire, Care, Able

  "Carmina", IV, 12, 19, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 874-77, 1922.

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• The words can not return.

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  Latin, Return, Can Not

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• No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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  Men, Vices, Born

  Horace (1850). “Works”, p.169

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• Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

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  Honor, Riches, Slave

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• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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  Mean, Envy, Golden

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• Those who covet much suffer from the want.

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  Suffering, Want, Avarice

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• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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