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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Horace

Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
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
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

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

Country Ease People Rich
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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

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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