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

Horace

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

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

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

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

Home May Think
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall

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

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