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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

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

Plunder Time Year
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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