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

Horace

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

Men Poetry Rate
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
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.)
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Men Time Year
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
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

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