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

Plunder Time Year
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense

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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