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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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday

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