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

Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

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

Exercise Health Try
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
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
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People

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

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