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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life

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

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