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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich

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