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

Horace

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
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

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