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• Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

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  Time, Pampering, Youth

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• Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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  Mean, Admiration, Lost

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• He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
  [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

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  Change, Despise

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• The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.
  [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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  Illustration, Settling, Difficulty

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• The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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  Arrows, Mark

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• There is moderation in everything.

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  Philosophical, Moderation

  Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

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• Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

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  Storm, Guests, Willing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345, Epistles, I. 1. 15, 1922.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Money amassed either serves us or rules us.

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Horace

  Literature

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

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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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• 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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• Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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  Punishment, Guilt, Companion

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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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• Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

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  Teacher, Want, Teach

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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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• Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

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  House, Forgetful, Tombs

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• Don't just put it off and think about it!

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  Thinking, Charity, Philanthropy

  Daniel H. Garrison, Horace (1998). “Horace: Epodes and Odes”, p.335, University of Oklahoma Press

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