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

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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

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.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
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
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
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
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People

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