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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous

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