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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

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

Anger Cut Punishment
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.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust

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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