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Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity

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