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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

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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall

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.

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