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

Anger Cut Punishment
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

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

Exercise Health Try
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

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

Home May Think
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve

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