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

Horace

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

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

Love Ready Sweet
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

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

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

Greedy Mind Praise
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth

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