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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Horace

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

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

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

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
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.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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