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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.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

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

Envy Punishment Tyrant
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try

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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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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