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

Horace

Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

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

Greedy Mind Praise
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

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

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