| Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. |
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| With silence favor me. |
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| No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. |
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| Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. |
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| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. |
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| Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. |
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| That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. |
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| Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. |
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| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. |
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| Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. |
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| Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? |
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- Horace |
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| It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. |
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| In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars. |
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| Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. |
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- Horace |
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| Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. |
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