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- 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
- Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- 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.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- A good reputation is more valuable than money.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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