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

Mind Spill Superfluous
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out

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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