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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

Horace

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
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
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

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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