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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
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.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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 years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust

Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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