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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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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

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

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

Gravem Need War Wine
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

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