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

Horace

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same

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

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

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