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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
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

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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