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Brave men were living before Agamemnon. 

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Book IV, ode ix, line 25
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We are but dust and shadow.

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Book IV, ode vii, line 16
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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

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Book III, ode xxix, line 41
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As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.

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Book III, ode xvi, line 17
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

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If the world should break and fall on him, it would strike him fearless.

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Book III, ode iii, line 7
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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Book III, ode iii, line 1
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It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

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Book III, ode ii, line 13
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Death takes the mean man with the proud; The fatal urn has room for all.

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Book III, ode i, line 14 (trans. John Conington)
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Ah, Postumus! they fleet away, our years, nor piety one hour can win from wrinkles and decay, and Death's indomitable power.

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Book II, ode xiv, line 1 (trans. John Conington)
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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Book II, ode x, line 5
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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Book II, ode iii, line 1
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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

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Book I, ode xi, line 7
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Now drown care in wine.

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Book I, ode vii, line 32
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Tomorrow we will be back on the vast ocean.

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The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings

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