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

Increase Money Owner Slave
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
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
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

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

Joyful Moment Victory
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous

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