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

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember

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