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O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?

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A good resolve will make any port.

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Better to accept whatever happens.

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Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

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A greater liar than the Parthians.

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No man is born without faults.

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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That best of blessings, a contented mind.

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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

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Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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