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• Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

  Horace

  Kings, Bliss, Court

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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  Pride, Vices, Purpose

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

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  Life, World, Birth

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• All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

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  Men, Delight, Admire

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• Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

  Horace

  Wall, Evil, Done

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• Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

  Horace

  Bears, Shoulders, Wells

  "The poems of Horace".

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• If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

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  Kings, Feet, Giving

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• How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

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  Littles, Virtue, Economy

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• The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

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  Humanity, Tendencies, Forbidden

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• You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• Nothing is swifter than rumor.

  Horace

  Rumor

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• Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

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  Wisdom, Men, World

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• Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

  Horace

  Avert

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• The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

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  Fall, Wind, Towers

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• Force without reason falls of its own weight.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

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• Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

  Horace

  Envy

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• Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
  [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

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  Writing, Foundation, Source

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• We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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  Mind, Vices, Example

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• Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

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  Fall, Honor, Fallen

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• It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

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  Forgiveness, Grants, Offense

  "Satires" by Horace, I. 3. 74 in,

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• If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

  Horace

  Looks, May, Tomorrow

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• Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

  Horace

  Fire, Gains, Neglected

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• In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

  Horace

  Vices, Embrace, Vain

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• Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

  Horace

  Latin, Voice, Together

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