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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 10.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 10.

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It's insane to carry timber to the forest.

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Romulus. Quoted in Saturae [Satires], written by Horace. c. 35 BC, bk. 1.

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Romulus. Quoted in Satires and Epistles, written by Horace, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1.

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Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

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Horace. Epodi [Epodes]. 30 BC, epode 2, l. 1.

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Horace. "Epodes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, epode 2, l. 1.

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Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 2.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 2.

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A snake lurks in the grass.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 3.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 3.

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We are not all capable of everything.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 8.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 8.

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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 9.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 9.

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Humor very often cuts the knot of serious questions more trenchantly and successfully than severity.

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Romulus. Quoted in Saturae [Satires], written by Horace. c. 35 BC, bk. 1.

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Romulus. Quoted in Satires and Epistles, written by Horace, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1.

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How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths?

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Horace. Saturae [Satires]. c. 35 BC, bk. 1.

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Horace. "Satires." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1.

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This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these.

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Romulus. Quoted in Saturae [Satires], written by Horace. c. 35 BC, bk. 2.

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Romulus. Quoted in Satires and Epistles, written by Horace, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2.

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Why should truth not be impress'd
Beneath the cover of a jest.

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Romulus. Quoted in Saturae [Satires], written by Horace. c. 35 BC, bk. 1.

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Time bears away all things, even our minds.

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Virgil. Eclogae [Eclogues]. c. 30 BC, no. 9.

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Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 9.

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Look over there-smoke rises already from the rooftops
And longer fall the shadows cast by the mountain heights.

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