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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

Horace

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue

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