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

Horace

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge

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