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• No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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  Latin, Blind, Obedience

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• We are deceived by the appearance of right.

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  Latin, Appearance, Deceived

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• Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

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• He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

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  Arms, Study, Virtue

  Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.233

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• Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
  [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
  Appone.]

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  Future, Stores, Cease

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• I was what you are, you will be what I am.

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  Latin

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• Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

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  Dull, Capture, Reader

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• There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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  Perfect, Perfect Happiness

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• Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

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  Passion, Wine, Secret

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• What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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  Trust, Eye, Mind

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• Work at it night and day.

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  Night

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• All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

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  Men, Delight, Admire

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• Force without reason falls of its own weight.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

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• Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

  Horace

  Avert

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• Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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  Wall, Evil, Done

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• The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

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  Humanity, Tendencies, Forbidden

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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  Life, World, Birth

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• Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

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  Fly Away, Dregs, Has Beens

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• Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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  Attitude, Soul, Relax

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• Be smart, drink your wine.

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  Smart, Wine, Simple

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• The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

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  Care, Wealth, Increase

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• Nature is harmony in discord.

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  Nature, Harmony, Discord

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• Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

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  Kings, Bliss, Court

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

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  Mad, Insanity, Majority

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 120, 1922.

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• Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

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  Thinking, Literature, May

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