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Horace

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

Book Fate Live Today
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul

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