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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

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul

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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