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

Fern Field Fire Out
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

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

Book Fate Live Today
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit 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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