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

Horace

A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness

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

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