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

Gravem Need War Wine
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

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

Character Consistent Last
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word

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