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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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

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

Grief Limit Men
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

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

Exercise Health Try
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.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word

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