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

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
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
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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.
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Owner Poor Thief
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try

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