He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

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

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

Mind Spill Superfluous
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise

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