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

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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible

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

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