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

Horace

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
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
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy

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