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• He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

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  Life, Cheer, Father

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• Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

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  Ciphers, Earth, Fruit

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• Now drown care in wine.
  [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]

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  Wine, Care, Vino

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• Who prates of war or want after his wine?
  [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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  War, Wine, Want

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• Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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  Light, Shining, Cover Ups

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 6. 24, 20 BC.

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• In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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  Work, Obscure, Recreation

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• If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

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  Knowledge, Use, Impart

  "Epistles". Book by HoraceI, 6, 67. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23,

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• Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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  Nature, Pitchforks, Nevertheless

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• Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

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  Strength, Judgment, Policy

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• Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
  [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
  Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

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  Heaven, Path, Virtue

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• Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

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  Disputes, Court, Grammar

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• Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

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  Blessed, Grateful, Hands

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• Tear thyself from delay.

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  Procrastination, Tears, Delay

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• Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

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  Carpe Diem, Seize The Day, Morrow

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• Anger is brief madness

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  Madness

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• I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

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  Appreciation, Latin, Bronze

  Odes bk. 3, no. 30, l. 1

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• Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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  Latin, Savages, Conqueror

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• That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

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  World, Corners, Corners Of The World

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• The grammarians are arguing.

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  Latin, Arguing

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• Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

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  Latin, Welcome, Hours

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• I shall not completely die.

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  Latin, Dies

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• He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

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  Sweet, Latin

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• The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

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  Writing, Secret, Sound

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

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  Gossip, Ears, Inquisitive

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• In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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  Country, Rome, Sky

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