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

Horace

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

Eye Mind Trust
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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.
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Discarde Perceive Return
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth

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