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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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• Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great:
  That ample urn holds all men's names.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  "Odes and Epodes".

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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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• 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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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

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  Art, Wine, Glasses

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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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• Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

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  Latin, Example, Doe

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• The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

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  Horse, Eagles, Brave

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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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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

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  Grieving, Doors, Cottages

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• The dispute is still before the judge.

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  Latin, Judging, Disputes

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• Most virtue lies between two vices.

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  Lying, Two, Vices

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• In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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  Trying, Obscure, Concise

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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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• 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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• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

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  Trust, Carpe Diem, Seize The Day

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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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• The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

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  Sauce, Eating, Pleasure

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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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• 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.

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  Freedom, Poet, Claims

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• What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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  Art, Secret, Mind

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• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

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  Cutting, Men, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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