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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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A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love 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 gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth

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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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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