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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Horace

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

Greedy Mind Praise
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness

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