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

Horace

Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

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

Affair Business Other People
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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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

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