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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
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 scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling

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