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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

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave

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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