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Maxioms by Horace (quintus Horatius Flaccus)

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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one
hundred.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one
hundred.

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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags
with its mouth whatever it can, and adds read more

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags
with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she
is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
[Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris
Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo
Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]

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What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]

What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]

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Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
[Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
[Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
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He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is
infected with the same disease.
[Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]

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