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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Category: Anger Author: Horace
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In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
Category: Cities Author: Horace
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Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Category: Death Author: Horace
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
Category: Dieting Author: Horace
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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out.
Category: Environment Author: Horace Source: Odes
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Category: Gratitude Author: Horace
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Category: Laziness Author: Horace
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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
Category: Mind Author: Horace
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
Category: Poetry Author: Horace
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Category: Prosperity Author: Horace
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Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
Category: Safety Author: Horace
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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Category: Soul Author: Horace
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Category: Speaking Author: Horace
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