Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse … - Horace

" "
Ille potens sui
laetusque deget, cui licet in diem
dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra
nube polum pater occupato
vel sole puro."

Horace

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

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Ovid Virgil Juvenal Lucretius Cicero

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.

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"Et si male nunc, non olim sic erit"

"Though things are bad now, they will not always be so"

Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro." - Horace

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