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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

Horace

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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