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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

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Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

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Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

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Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

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

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You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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We are free to yield to truth.

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

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