A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
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
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word

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