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Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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