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

Admiration Lost Mean
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste

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