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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Horace

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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