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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
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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Destiny End Try
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
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.
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Home Life Night
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
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.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People

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