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

Horace

Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
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
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
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
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine

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