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

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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last

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

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