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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.

Horace

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect

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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