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

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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment

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