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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
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

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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