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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Horace

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday

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