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

Horace

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy

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