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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

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful

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.]

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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.]

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