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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

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

Plunder Time Year
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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