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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
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 short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

Gold will be slave or master.

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