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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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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
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
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

Authorship Care Write
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

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

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
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
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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