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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

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

Badly Life People Privacy
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

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

Depress People Think
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

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