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Horace

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

Love Ready Sweet
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave

Never without a shilling in my purse.

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