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• Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

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  Distance, Pieces, Fancy

  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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• Gold will be slave or master.

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  Gold, Slave, Masters

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

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• We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

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  Hate, Taken, Long

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• Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

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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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• Faults are soon copied.

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  Faults

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

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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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• Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

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  Soul, Climate

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• Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

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  Fate, Add, Each Day

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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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• 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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• The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

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  Latin, Again And Again, Pleasant

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• It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

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  Gay, Good Things

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• Humble things become the humble.

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  Humble, Humility

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 380-81, Epistles, I, 7, 44, 1922.

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• Half is done when the beginning is done.

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  Latin, Done, Half

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• Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

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  Fire, House, Danger

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• Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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  Punishment, Guilt, Companion

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• Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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  House, Forgetful, Tombs

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• Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave.
  [Lat., Tristia maestum
  Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum;
  Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

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  Light, Expression, Passionate

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• The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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  Inspirational, Welcome, Hours

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• Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

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  Teacher, Want, Teach

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• The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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  Latin, Bulls, Horns

  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

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  Politics, Common, Economy

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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  Greed, Care, Wealth

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever.
  [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam
  Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
  Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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  Life, Rivers, Waiting

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