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Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last

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