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By the favour of the heavens

Horace

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

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

Grief Limit Men
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

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

Greedy Mind Praise
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs

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