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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

What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

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

Dark Death Needs
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational

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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