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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.]

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

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

Country Ease People Rich
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

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

Half Job Sensible
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 the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
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

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.]

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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.]

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