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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

Horace

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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