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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

Horace

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
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.)
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Men Time Year
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think

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