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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.

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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
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.]
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Death King Tower
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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.
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Home Life Night
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate

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.

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