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

Horace

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

Guest Storm Willing
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
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
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment

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