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Horace

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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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 do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment

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