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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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Fate, Hands, Names

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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

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Dolphins, Woods, Painting

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

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Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

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Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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Hands, Want, Satisfaction

"Carmina", Book III. 16. 42, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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Horse, Teaching, Necks

"Epistles", Book I. 2. 64, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 779-80, 1922.

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Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Horace

Freedom, Poet, Claims

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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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Ordinary, Made, Wells

'Ars Poetica' l. 47

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A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

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Money, Men, Wife

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.365, Delphi Classics

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If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

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Secret, Virtue, Pleasure

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

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Art, Stupid, Wine

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.362, Delphi Classics

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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

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Decision, Speech, Favour

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It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . .
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

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Laughing, Age, Gone

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Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

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Essence, Yesterday, Soul

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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Years, Wind, Pyramids

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 388-90, Carmina, III. 30. 1, 1922.

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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Men, Wish, Purses

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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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Fate, Gains, Granted

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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

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Life, Home, Night

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In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

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Pears, Presses

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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Trying, Obscure, Concise

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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

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Vain, Cradle, Graves

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Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

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Wrinkles, Age, Encroachment

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The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

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Hook, Pits, Hawks

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Most virtue lies between two vices.

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Lying, Two, Vices

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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Men, Wife, Credit

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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

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Heart, Wine, Thinking

Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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Born: December 8, 65 BC
Died: November 27, 8 BC
Occupation: Poet
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