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Punishment follows close on crime.

Horace

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

Badly Life People Privacy
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect

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