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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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
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
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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

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