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"Carpe diem", in Latin.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 11.

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I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 30.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk, 3, no. 30.

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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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It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 2, no. 10.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, no. 10.

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The centuries roll back to the ancient age of gold.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 4, no. 2.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, no. 2.

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Lovely and honorable it is to die for one's country.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 2.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 2.

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You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will hurry back.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 10.

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The people are a many-headed beast.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 11.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 11.

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The covetous man is ever in want.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 2.

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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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Horace. Epistularum liber secundus [Second Book of Letters]. 14 BC, bk. 2, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2, epistle 2.

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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 11.

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Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 12.

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What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

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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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Tomorrow we shall sail again on the vast ocean.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 7.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 7.

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Make a fortune; a fortune, if you can, honestly; if not, a fortune by any means.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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

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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.