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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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
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.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

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

Character Consistent Last
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich

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