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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
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word

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