Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede pœna claudo.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace,
has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
—Horace
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Quis nam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus. Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
—Horace
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Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.
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Deprendi miserum est. It is grievous to be caught.
—Horace
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Adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat. The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.
—Horace
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Adclinis falsis animus meliora recusat. The mind enamored with deceptive things, declines things better.
—Horace
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Ridiculum acri
Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
—Horace
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Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.
—Horace
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Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.
I, too,
am indignant when the worthy Homer nods;
yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
—Horace
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Quidquid sub terra est, in apricum proferet ætas;
Defodiet condetque nitentia.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
It will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
—Horace
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Vis consili expers mole ruit sua. Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
—Horace
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Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Dulce est desipere in loco.
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;
A little nonsense now and then is pleasant.
—Horace
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Ridentem dicere verum,
Quid vetat.
What forbids a man to speak the truth in a laughing way?
—Horace
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Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima stultitia caruisse. To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
—Horace
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind too weak to grasp them?
—Horace
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Deprendi miserum est. It is grievous to be caught.
—Horace, Satires, Book I. 2. 134.
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Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede pœna claudo.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
—Horace
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Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. Struggling to be brief I become obscure.
—Horace
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Vis consili expers mole ruit sua. (Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.)
—Horace