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

Horace

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing

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

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

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