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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

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

Book Fate Live Today
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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