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Horace

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

Conceited Race Self
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing

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