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Quotes from Odes — Horace

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I have made a monument more lasting than bronze.

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Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.

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Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.

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If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.

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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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Enjoy the present smiling hour,
And put it out of Fortune's power.

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Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.

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As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.

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It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

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Aequam memento rebus in arduis
servare mentem.

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Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

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Ah, Postumus! they fleet away,
Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
And Death's indomitable power.

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In vain did Nature's wife command
Divide the waters from the land,
If daring ships and men profane,
Invade th' inviolable main.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

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O fairer daughter of a fair mother!

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A pauper in the midst of wealth.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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I sing for maidens and boys.

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