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- 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
- To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- The covetous man is ever in want.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- 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
- The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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