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Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich

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