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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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