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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Horace

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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