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Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

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

Face Good Men Sense
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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