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

Judge Justice Life Umpires
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

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

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

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

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