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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.

Horace

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness

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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