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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Horace

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

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

Love Ready Sweet
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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