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

Horace

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

Love Ready Sweet
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think

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