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

Degrees Last Men
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant

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