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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Horace

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
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
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
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle

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