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

Horace

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

Book Fate Live Today
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

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

Badly Life People Privacy
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

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

Finish Half Start

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

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