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

Joy Laughter Love People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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 gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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

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