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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious

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