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

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
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.
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Last Poverty Wing
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet

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