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

Mind Spill Superfluous
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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 gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave

Gold will be slave or master.

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