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

Horace

Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try

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

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