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— Horace"If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]"
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We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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