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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

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