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Anger is brief madness

Horace

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

Grief Limit Men
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

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