It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh … - Horace

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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

Horace

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat. , Tempus abire tibi est, ne. . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas. ]

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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]

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