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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

Horace

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
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
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
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust

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