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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

Horace

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

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

Fire Neighbor Wall
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!

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