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Horace

Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
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
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.
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Owner Poor Thief
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same

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