Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength

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