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

Horace

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
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
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

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

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