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

Horace

Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
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
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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

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

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