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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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
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
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try

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