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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

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

Dark Death Needs
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
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.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
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.]
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Authorship Care Write
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year

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