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Anger is brief madness

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Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

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

Increase Money Owner Slave
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

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