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

Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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 resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant

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