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• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
• We are all driven into the same fold. -- Horace (8 BC)
• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
  -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)...
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca (8 BC) -- De Providentia, 5, 9
• Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 359
• A picture is a poem without words. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
• I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
  -- Seneca (8 BC) -- On a Happy Life, 2, (L'Estrange's Abstract, Chap, i.)...
• Rule your mind or it will rule you. HORACE
• As crazy as hauling timber into the woods. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65-8 B.C.)