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

Horace

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
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
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
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
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

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

Car Men Wheels
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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

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