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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
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 years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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