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Horace

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

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

First Money Wealth
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness

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