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

Horace

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

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

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.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men

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

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