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• Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

  Horace

  Desire

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• While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

  Horace

  Doors, Clients, Slips

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• Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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  Character, Consistency, Ends

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• Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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  Mind, May

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• He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

  Horace

  Latin, Wish, Lost

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• Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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  Wise, Knowledge, Being Wise

  Horace (1976). “Q. Horati Flacci Sermones et epistulae”

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• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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  Running, Nature, Romance

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24

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• He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

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  Sea, Names, Wings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 387-88, Carmina, IV, 2, 1, 1922.

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• One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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  Death, Night, Path

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• Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.

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  Powerful, Blow, Rocks

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• I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

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  Stars, Ambition, Strikes

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• If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

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  Life, Delightful, Jokes

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• Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

  Horace

  Time, Believe, Shine On

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• Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

  Horace

  Life, Privacy

  "Epistles", I. 17. 10 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Let Apella the Jew believe it.

  Horace

  Believe, Jew

  'Satires' bk. 1, no. 5, l. 100

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• Don't carry logs into the forest.

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  Latin, Forests

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• If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

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  Grief, Grieving, Wish

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, v. 102, c. 19 BC.

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• Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

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  War, Wine, Hardship

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• Cease to ask what the morrow
  will bring forth,
  and set down as gain
  each day that fortune grants.

  Horace

  Happiness, Each Day, Gains

  Horace (1927). “The Odes and Epodes”

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• There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

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  Grief, Disease, Accents

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• The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

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  Stars, Science, Sun

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• Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  Horace

  Nature, Science, Foolish

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• Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

  Horace

  Desire, Naked, Camps

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• The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

  Horace

  Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Epistles, I. 2. 57, 1922.

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• Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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  Fall, Grief, Passion

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

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