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

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One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich

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

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