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• What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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  Parent, Age, Doe

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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  Depressing, Thinking, People

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• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

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  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

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  Change, Heart, Adversity

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• The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

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  Use, Gains, Misers

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

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• This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

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  Prayer, Garden, Land

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• The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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  Wall, Greed, Want

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• Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

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  Lowest, Highest

  "Carmina" by Horace, III. 1. 14,

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• While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

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  Running, Attitude, Talking

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• Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

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  Kings, Play, People

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• In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  "Odes". Book by Horace, Book II, ode iii, line 1, c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

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• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

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  Death, Kings, Men

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• A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
  [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

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  Mind, Appearance, Animus

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• A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

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  Blood, Skins, Leeches

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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  Lying, Father, Deceiving Others

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• Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

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  Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule

  "Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

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• That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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  Greatness, Men, Brightness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Epistles, II. 1. 13, 1922.

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• What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Forbidden, Lighters

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• Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

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  Change, Nice, Years

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• Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue.
  [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

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  Gold, Silver, Virtue

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• Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
  [Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
  Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

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  Father, Men, Law

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• He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

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  Men, Shoes, Choices

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.370, Delphi Classics

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• He's arm'd without that's innocent within;
  Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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  Wall, Literature, Innocence

  "Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

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• We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

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  Literature, Crime, Disgrace

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