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

Horace

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency

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