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

Horace

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

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

Home May Think
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

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

Greedy Mind Praise
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure

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

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