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

Home May Think
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men

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