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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.
»

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WIST Quotations · Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 12, l. 25ff (4.12.25-28) (13 BC) [tr. Marshall (1908)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsOf 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…
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