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

Horace

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

Fire Neighbor Wall
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
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
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant

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