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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

By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
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 neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

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

Mind Spill Superfluous
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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

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.

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