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• When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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  Opposites, Trying, Faults

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• In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

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  Climate, Disposition

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• If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Eulogy

  "Carmina", II. 10. 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 93-96, 1922.

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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  Motivation, Rain, Fate

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• Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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  Inspirational, Life, Latin

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

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• In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

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  Believe, Independence, Masters

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• Nothing is swifter than rumor.

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  Rumor

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• We are dust and shadow.
  [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]

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  Dust, Shadow

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• Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

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  Bears, Shoulders, Wells

  "The poems of Horace".

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• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

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  Death, Time, Memories

  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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• Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

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  Yield, Sloth, Laziness

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

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  Courage, Race, Law

  "Carmina". I. 3. 25,

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• The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

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  Congratulations, Men, Neighbor

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• One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

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  Errors, Society, Politics

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• When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

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  Inspirational, Discipline, Levels

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• Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

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  Money, Mean, Stills

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• Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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  Teaching, Mind, Vim

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• I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

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  Distance, Profane

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• Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

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  Lying, Talent, Dormant

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• I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

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  Hate, I Hate, Irreverent

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• We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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  Mind, Vices, Example

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• Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

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  Flames, Acquire, Ifs

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• Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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  Knowledge, Literature, Injustice

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• A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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  Pride, Vices, Purpose

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• Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

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  Latin, Play, Fool

  "The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory".

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