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A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
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
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

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

Character Consistent Last
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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