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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.

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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
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men

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.

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