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O Fortune, cruelest of heavenly powers, Why make such game of this poor life of ours?
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Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum [And seek for truth in the groves of Academe].
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It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.
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As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.
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This used to be among my prayers — a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and beyond these a bit of wood.
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O fount Bandusian, more sparkling than glass.
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Swift moons make good their losses in the sky,
but when we go down to be
with pious Aeneas, wealthy Tullus, and Ancus,
we are dust and shadow.
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I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.
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I hate the common herd and keep them off. Hush your tongues; as a priest of the Muses, I sing songs never heard before to virgin girls and boys.
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The year and the hour which robs us of the fair day warn us not to hope for things to last for ever.
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Enjoy the present smiling hour,
And put it out of Fortune's power.
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practise virtue afterwards.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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Believe each day that has dawned is your last. Some hour to which you have not been looking forward will prove lovely. As for me, if you want a good laugh, you will come and find me fat and sleek, in excellent condition, one of Epicurus's herd of pigs.
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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable will drop out, if usage so choose, with whom lies the decision, the judgement, and the rule of speech.
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Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.
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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money.
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It is not the least praise to have pleased leading men. Not everyone is lucky enough to get to Corinth.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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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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The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
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