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• The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

  Horace

  Depressing, Mind, Body

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• Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
  [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
  Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

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  Men, Ordinary, Poet

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• Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
  [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

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  Men, Should, Standards

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• If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
  [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
  Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

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  Eye, Years, Mind

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• The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
  [Lat., Quin corpus onustum
  Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
  Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]

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  Depressing, Yesterday, Mind

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• In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

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  Hard Times, Prosperity, Equanimity

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• In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

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  Integrity, Wraps

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• Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

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  Mind, Bats, Care

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• Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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  Riches, Firsts, Wealth

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• The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

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  Mountain, Littles, Birth

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• Now, that's enough.
  [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

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  Jam, Satisfaction, Enough

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• And yet more bright
  Shines out the Julian star,
  As moon outglows each lesser light.
  [Lat., Micat inter omnes
  Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
  Luna minores.]

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  Stars, Moon, Light

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• I wrap myself up in virtue.
  [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

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  Virtue, Wraps

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• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Fortune

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

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  Enjoy, Present Day

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• There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

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  Mean, Limits, Virtue

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• Labor diligently to increase your property.

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  Literature, Increase, Labor

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• Those that are little, little things suit.

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  Littles, Suits, Action

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• O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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  Practice, Citizens, Firsts

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• Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

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  Ambition, Heaven, Storm

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• There is a middle ground in things.

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  Latin, Middle, Middle Ground

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• Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

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  Ability, Equal, Wells

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• A man of refined taste and judgment.

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  Men, Taste, Refined

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• What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

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  Wealth, Enjoy, Ifs

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• Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

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  Book, Men, Poet

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