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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
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
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
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men

Gold will be slave or master.

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