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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

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  Nonsense, Now And Then, Pleasant

  "Odes". Book by Horace, IV. 12. 27, 13 BC.

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• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

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  Judging, Judgement, Internet

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• Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

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  Desire, Care, Riches

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• With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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  Sweet, Should, Ready

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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  Sloth, Wicked, Laziness

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• Amiability shines by its own light.

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  Light, Shining

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• Change generally pleases the rich.
  [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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  Change, Vices, Rich

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• Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
  [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

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  Money, Mean, Honest

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• All things considered, nothing is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, All Things

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• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

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  Wall, Business, Fire

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

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• Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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  Men, Poetry, Mediocrity

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Lines 372 - 373, c. 18 BC.

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• Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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  Advice, Mind, Superfluous

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• Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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  Fear, Contentment, Atheism

  Horace (1961). “Odes and Epodes: In the original Latin and in English translations”

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• What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

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  Doe, Thorns, Ifs

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, II. 2. 212, 20 BC.

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• One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

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  Errors, Different, Different Directions

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 236-37, Satires, II. 3. 50, 1922.

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• Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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  Excellence, Sometimes, Excellent

  Ars Poetica l. 359

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• The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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  Poet, Madmen, Fellows

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• In giving advice I advise you, be short.

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  Giving, Advice, Giving Advice

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• A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
  [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

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  Common, Eating, Empty

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• A poem is like a painting.

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  Painting

  Ars Poetica l. 361

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• Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

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  Add, Tomorrow, Knows

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• Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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  Poetry, Imperfection, Faults

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 351, 18 BC.

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• There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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  Calumny Is, Innocence, Calumny

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• The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

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  Horse, Car, Where You Are

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• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

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  Strong, Wine, Boys

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