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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

Horace

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
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
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
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

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

Car Men Wheels
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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