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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
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
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
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.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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