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

Horace

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle

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