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A man perfect to the finger tips.

Horace

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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

Owner Poor Thief
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think

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