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Horace

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
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

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

Face Good Men Sense
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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