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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People

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