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Horace

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

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember

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