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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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

Greedy Mind Praise
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life 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

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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