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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

Horace

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

Country Ease People Rich
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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 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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

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

Love Ready Sweet

Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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