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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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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
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

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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