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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Horace

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
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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Destiny End Try
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment

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