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Horace

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
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.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment

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