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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

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

Fern Field Fire Out
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

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

Affair Business Other People
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust

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