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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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