Horace - Epistles

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

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It is not everyone that can get to Corinth.

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We are but numbers, born to consume resources.

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Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.

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You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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This retreat, so sweet—yes, believe me, so bewitching—keeps me, my friend, in sound health in September's heat.

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If he were on earth, Democritus would laugh at the sight.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

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Citizens, citizens, the first thing to acquire is money. Cash before conscience!

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For joys fall not to the rich alone, nor has he lived ill, who from birth to death has passed unknown.

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At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.

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

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Sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea.

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I put together and collect things which I will soon be able to draw upon.

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They change their clime, not their frame of mind, who rush across the sea. We strain at achieving nothing: we seek happiness in boats and carriage rides.

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Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.

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As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.

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Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

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Anger is a brief lunacy, so control your passion or it will control you.

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Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum [And seek for truth in the groves of Academe].

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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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