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

Horace

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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.

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