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• Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.

  Horace

  Anniversary, Wedding, Unbroken

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• The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

  Horace

  Passion, Men, Tyrants

  'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

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• Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

  Horace

  Stupid, Silly, Mountain

  'Ars Poetica' l. 139

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• Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

  Horace

  Oats, Ashamed

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• The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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  Reality, Order, Mind

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• To know all things is not permitted.

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  Knowledge, All Things, Knows

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• Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

  Horace

  Team, Men, Acres

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• Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

  Horace

  Cases, Extremes, Assistance

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• Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
  Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

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  Wise, Strong, Freedom

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• In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

  Horace

  Fall, Evil, Use

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• Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

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  Blessing, Firsts, Flow

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• A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.
  [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis
  Alteram sortem, bene preparatum
  Pectus.]

  Horace

  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

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• There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.
  [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

  Horace

  Silence, Faithful, Rewards

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• In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

  Horace

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

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• I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace

  Heart, Humanity, Victory

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• You are judged of by what you possess.

  Horace

  Judged

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• Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and
  whatever days fortune will give, count them
  as profit.

  Horace

  Giving, Asking, Tomorrow

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• In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

  Horace

  Life, Dawn, Care

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• Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

  Horace

  Peace, War, Fall

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• All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

  Horace

  Music, Singers, Faults

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• The man is either mad or his is making verses.
  [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

  Horace

  Men, Mad, Poet

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• Who guides below, and rules above,
  The great disposer, and the mighty king;
  Than He none greater, next Him none,
  That can be, is, or was.

  Horace

  God, Kings, Next

  Horace (1684). “The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace: Done Into English”, p.18

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• He can afford to be a fool.

  Horace

  Fool

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• Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

  Horace

  Speakers

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• No one is content with his own lot.

  Horace

  Horace, John Larkin Lincoln (1866). “The works of Horace: with English notes. For the use of schools and colleges”, p.440

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