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

Country Ease People Rich
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure

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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