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

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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
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 populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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