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Horace

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

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

Finger Men Perfect
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs

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