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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Horace

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

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

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

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