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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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Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
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.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think

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

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