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• Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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  Change, Nice, Years

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• Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue.
  [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

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  Gold, Silver, Virtue

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• What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Forbidden, Lighters

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

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  Blood, Skins, Leeches

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• What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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  Parent, Age, Doe

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• Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

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  Doors, Return, Human Nature

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• Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

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  Patience, Sorrow, May

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• The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

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  Courage, Men, Citizens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, Carmina, III. 3. 1, 1922.

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• Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

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  Time, Pampering, Youth

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• Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

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  Mountain, Lightning, Strikes

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

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  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

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• Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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  Mind, Purpose, Literature

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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  Depressing, Thinking, People

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• Faults are soon copied.

  Horace

  Faults

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.394, Delphi Classics

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• As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

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  Care, Take Care, Translate

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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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  Change, Heart, Adversity

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• The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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  Wall, Greed, Want

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• There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

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  Limits, Certain, Mediums

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• Leave the rest to the gods.

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  Literature

  Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.21

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• While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

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  Running, Attitude, Talking

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• In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode iii, line 1, c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

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• Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

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  Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule

  "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

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• Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
  [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
  Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

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  Mean, Writing, Bears

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• Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

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  Courage, Adversity, Heart

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