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Punishment follows close on crime.

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
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
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
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think

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