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Horace

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self

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