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Horace

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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational

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