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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Horace

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

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

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

First Money Wealth
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

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

Plunder Time Year
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start

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