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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

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

Hate Sin Virtue
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
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
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
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

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