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• Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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  Latin, Tomorrow, Capture

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• It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

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  Country, Sweet, Latin

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• Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

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  Inspire, Care, Able

  "Carmina", IV, 12, 19, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 874-77, 1922.

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• The words can not return.

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  Latin, Return, Can Not

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• No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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  Men, Vices, Born

  Horace (1850). “Works”, p.169

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• Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

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  Honor, Riches, Slave

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• There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

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  Limits, Fixed

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Those who covet much suffer from the want.

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  Suffering, Want, Avarice

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• Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

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• It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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  Sweet, Mind, Occasions

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• A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

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  Literature

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.269

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• A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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  Genius, Host, Calamity

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book II, satire viii, lines 73 - 74, c. 35 BC, 30 BC.

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• Wine unlocks the breast.

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  Wine, Breasts

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• Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
  The false refinements that would keep her out.

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  Environment, Force, Refinement

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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  Running, Wine, Water

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• Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

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  Men, Difficult, Accomplish

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• The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

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  Laughter, Stolen, Colour

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• As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

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  Men, Different, Pursuit

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• The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

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  Slave, Be A Slave, Persons

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• The covetous man is ever in want.

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  Men, Greed, Want

  Horace (1836). “The works of Horace: translated literally into English prose; for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language”, p.235

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• Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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  Adversity, Genius, Fortune

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• For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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  Tasks, Done, Half

  "A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators".

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• Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

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  Death, Kings, Feet

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• Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

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  Country, Pursuit, Dear

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.236

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• Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

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  Sports, Fortune, Human Life

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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