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

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

Face Good Men Sense
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
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
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think

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

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