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

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write

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