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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Horace

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

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

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

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

Anger Cut Punishment
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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