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

Horace

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

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

Aim Brevity Obscure
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
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.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself

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