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• I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

  Horace

  Home, Sunset, Mind

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• Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

  Horace

  Literature, Matter, Failing

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• Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

  Horace

  Wall, Powerful, Gold

  Horace, Philip FRANCIS (D.D.) (1815). “The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis”, p.103

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• All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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  Men, Opinion, Fine

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 569-70, Epistles, II. 2. 58, 1922.

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• Punishment follows close on crime.

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  Punishment, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Carmina, IV. 5. 24, 1922.

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• Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,
  Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

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  Gambling, Soul, Venture

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• Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
  [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Tutus

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• He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
  [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

  Horace

  Use, Poverty, Poor

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• Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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  Friends, Wise, Kings

  Horace (1709). “Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem”, p.17

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• Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
  [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
  Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

  Horace

  Moving, Justice, Wicked

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• Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
  [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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  Punishment, Terrible, Pursue

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• Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

  Horace

  Opportunity, May, Lasts

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• Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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  Thinking, Years, Heaven

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• Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

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  Eagles, Fierce, Dove

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• God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

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  Rich, Pleasure, Made

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• Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

  Horace

  Envy, Competition, Crow

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• Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, He Man

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• He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

  Horace

  Mistake, Ridiculous, Same Mistakes

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

  Horace

  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.

  Horace

  Dresses, Fine, Ifs

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• It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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  Thieves, Poor, Owners

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• No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

  Horace

  Men, Duty

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• Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

  Horace

  Light, Confusion, Obscure

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• Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

  Horace

  Cutting, Failing, Knots

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• Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

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  Sea, Hug, Storm

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