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Horace

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

Admiration Lost Mean
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant

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