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Horace

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul

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