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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

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

Half Job Sensible
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

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

Affair Business Other People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
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
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall

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