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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Horace

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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
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
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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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