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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy

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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