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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Horace

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

Home May Think
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

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

Affair Business Other People
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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