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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Affair Business Other People
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

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

Face Good Men Sense
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure

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