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

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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

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

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

Dark Death Needs
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency

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

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