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

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

Joyful Moment Victory
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write

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