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

Exercise Health Try
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
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

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

Affair Business Other People
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment

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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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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