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Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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