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• God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

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  Guilty, Innocent

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• He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

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  Wife, Tales, Old Wives Tales

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• Plant no other tree before the vine.

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  Tree, Vines, Plant

  "Carmina", I. 18, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 812-14, 1922.

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• Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

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• The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

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  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.380, Delphi Classics

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• In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
  [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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  Speech, Obscure, Concise

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• He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

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  Men, Doe, Preserves

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• I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
  [Lat., Et idem
  Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
  Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

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  Sleep, Long, Bonus

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• What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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  Men, Odds, Doe

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 48, c. 35 BC.

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• Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

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  Sometimes, Caught

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• Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

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  Father, Parent, Caverns

  Horace (1901). “Q. Horatii Flacci Odæ, Epodæ, Carmen sæculare”

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• A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

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  Gains, Approval, Pleasant

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• We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
  [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
  Versatur urna serius, ocius
  Sors exitura.]

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  Death, Sooner Or Later, Compelled

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• He that cuts off twenty years of life
  Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

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  Death, Suicide, Cutting

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• What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

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  Justice, Modesty, Found

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 520-21, Carmina, I. 24. 6, 1922.

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• Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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  Mean, Envy, Golden

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode x, line 5, c. 23 BC, 13 BC.

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• Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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  Hero, Night, Agamemnon

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• He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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  His Love, Wealth, Grows

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• Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
  [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

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  People, Royalty, Monarchs

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• He is praised by some, blamed by others.

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  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

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  Hay, Horns, Mischievous

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• He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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• Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
  [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
  Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

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  Wings, Peaceful, Black

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• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

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  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

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  Sleep, Long, May

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