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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

Horace
Wise, Character, Passion

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Horace
Anger, Passion, Madness
"Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle ii, line 62, c. 20 BC.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

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Passion, Wine, Secret

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace
Love, Passion, Advice

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

Horace
Fall, Grief, Passion
Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

Horace
Passion, Men, Tyrants
'Odes' bk. 3, no. 3, l. 1

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

Horace
Passion, Want, Poet

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