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Horace

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
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
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs

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