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Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

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

Joyful Moment Victory
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
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start

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