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

Horace

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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