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

Horace

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
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

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

Degrees Last Men
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve

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

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