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• What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

  Horace

  Secret, Battle, Doe

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• O sweet solace of labors.
  [Lat., O laborum
  Dulce lenimen.]

  Horace

  Sweet, Solace, Labor

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• The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

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  Sin, Virtue, Refrain

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• It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

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  Men, Every Man

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• An accomplished man to his fingertips.

  Horace

  Men, Fingertips, Accomplished

  'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 32

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• Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Epistles bk. 1, no. 18, l. 71

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• In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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  Opposites, Vices, Fool

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• As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

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  Care, Riches, Consumerism

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

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  Men, Pleasure, Profession

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• We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
  [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
  Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

  Horace

  Hate, Sight, Safe

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• Never without a shilling in my purse.

  Horace

  Purses

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• A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

  Horace

  Food, Common, Hungry

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

  Horace

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• The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

  Horace

  Latin, Men, Forget

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• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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  Mean, Envy, Golden

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• In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

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  Home, Evil, Shrews

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• The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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  Home, Thinking, May

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• Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality?
  [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus
  Vanae proficiunt?]

  Horace

  Law, Use, Immortality

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• Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

  Horace

  Grief, Funeral, Littles

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

  Horace

  Love, Passion, Advice

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• Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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  Conceited, Race, Self

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• Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
  Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

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  Safety, May, Moments

  Horace (1872). “The Odes and Epodes of Horace”, p.170

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• Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Happiness, Grateful

  "The Works of Horace".

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• The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
  [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
  A dis plura feret.]

  Horace

  Want, Deny

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• In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

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  Adversity, Gale, Prosperity

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