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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

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start

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.

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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.

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