What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year

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