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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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