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Horace

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

Degrees Last Men
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
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
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try

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