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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ↗

— Horace

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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. ↗

— Horace

#art #book #briefly #call #great

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

— Horace

#foolishly #gay #good #good thing #once

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ↗

— Horace

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. ↗

— Horace

#careless #dislike #happy #industrious #people

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. ↗

— Horace

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ↗

— Horace

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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. ↗

— Horace

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. ↗

— Horace

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Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. ↗

— Horace

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