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

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

Half Job Sensible
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

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

Exercise Health Try
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

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

Greedy Mind Praise

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

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