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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
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
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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