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

Badly Life People Privacy
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
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
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
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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory

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