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

Face Good Men Sense
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
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
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

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

Mean Money Stills
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

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