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- The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- There is measure in all things.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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