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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean 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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy

The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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