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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Horace

Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

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

Anger Cut Punishment
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

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