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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

Horace

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

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