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

Horace

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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
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 will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

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

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

Home May Think
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

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

Fern Field Fire Out

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