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A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

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Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

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In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

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In giving advice I advise you, be short.

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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

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There are as many preferences as there are men.

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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

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Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

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Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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