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

Mean Money Stills
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
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.)
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Men Time Year
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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