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Anger is brief madness

Horace

Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness

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