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

Horace

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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 once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
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
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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

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

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

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