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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.

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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
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
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

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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