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

First Money Wealth
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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
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

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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