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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Horace

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday

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