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Horace

Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful

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