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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

Horace

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

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
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.

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