Roman - Poet | 65 BC - 8 BC
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Horace
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
EyeYearsYourNinePublicLeast
When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
RememberThingsStaySteep
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
YouWillYourSinsFathersDad
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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Make a good use of the present.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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