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

Horace

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
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.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

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

Affair Business Other People

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

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

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