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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect

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