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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Horace

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
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People

Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

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