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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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

Mistake Ridiculous Same
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve
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.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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