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  1. A quotation from Horace

    Of lingering and gain-seeking make an end;
    Think, while there’s time, how soon Death’s pyre may blaze;
    And some brief folly mix with prudent ways:
       At the fit hour ’tis sweet to unbend.
     
    [Verum pone moras et studium lucri
    nigrorumque memor, dum licet, ignium
    misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
    dulce est desipere in loco.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 12, l. 25ff (4.12.25-28) (13 BC) [tr. Marshall (1908)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/73650/

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