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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.)

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

Guest Storm Willing
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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
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
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength

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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