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Horace

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

Face Good Men Sense
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write

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