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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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

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

Mind Spill Superfluous
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

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

Dark Death Needs
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave

Gold will be slave or master.

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