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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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.]
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Death King Tower
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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