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

Horace

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous

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