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

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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

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

Anger Cut Punishment
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
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
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine

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