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.]

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
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
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust

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