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

Love Ready Sweet
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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.)
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Men Time Year
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

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