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Horace

Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth

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