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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

Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
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.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year

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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