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Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

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

Joyful Moment Victory
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
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
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter

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