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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

Horace

A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name

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