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

Horace

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

Car Men Wheels
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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

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

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