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

Horace

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

Love Ready Sweet
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible

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

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