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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

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

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

First Money Wealth
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate

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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