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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

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

Depress People Think
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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

Men Time Year
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous

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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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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