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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
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
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

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

Love Ready Sweet
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
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

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