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

Horace

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

Fire Neighbor Wall
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
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
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels

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

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