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

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

Grief Limit Men
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
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
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

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