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Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels

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