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• Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

  Horace

  Latin, Sea, Sky

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• Little folks become their little fate.

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  Fate, Littles, Folks

  Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.348

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• Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

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  Pleasant

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• As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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  Life, Time, Believe

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• Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

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  Wisdom, Folly

  "The Odes of Horace".

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• Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
  Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

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  Time, Carpe Diem, Littles

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• Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?
  What does not destructive time destroy?

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  Time, Doe, Dies

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• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

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  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• Let your poem be kept nine years.

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  Years, Poetry, Nine

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, , 388, 18 BC.

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• Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

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  Seize The Day, Littles, Seize The Moment

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• There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

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  Nuts, Olives, Hard

  Horace (1902). “The poems of Horace”

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• The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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  Men, Years, Mortality

  Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185

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• Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

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  Self, Culture, Virtue

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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• The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

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  Memories, Lessons, May

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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• Most virtue lies between two vices.

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  Lying, Two, Vices

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• On day is pressed on by another.

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  Time

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• Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

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  Wrinkles, Age, Encroachment

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• We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

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  Statistics, Born, Resources

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 27

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• I want to live, and die with you.

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  Latin, Want, Dies

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• I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

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  Loyalty, Storm, Shelter

  "The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle i, line 14,

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• And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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  Girl, Tragedy, Acting

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• He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

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  Boyhood, Praise

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• Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

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  Different, Taste, Various

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• Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

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  Friendly, Helping, One Thing

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• There are as many preferences as there are men.

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  Men, Preference

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

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