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Horace

Category: Roman Poet
Type: Poet
National: Roman

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Anger is a short madness....

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Don't think, just do....

Every old poem is sacred....

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much....

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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in...

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice....

Labor diligently to increase your property....

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger....

Leave the rest to the gods....

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye...

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work....

Life is largely a matter of expectation....

Make a good use of the present....

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is...

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use...

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse...

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view....

O imitators, you slavish herd!...

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot...

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both...

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things....

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and...

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Poets wish to profit or to please....

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad;...

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you....

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The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice....

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they...

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The man is either mad, or he is making verses....

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The pen is the tongue of the mind....

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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will...

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant...

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers....

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent...

We are free to yield to truth....

We are just statistics, born to consume resources....

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Whatever advice you give, be short....

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren....

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is...

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