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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

Horace

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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.
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Last Poverty Wing
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
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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Country House People
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.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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