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

Horace

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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
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
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

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

Book Fate Live Today
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
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
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
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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