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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
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
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

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

Difficulty Explanation Involve

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