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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
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
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
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
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
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
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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