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

Horace

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

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

Plunder Time Year
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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.)
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Men Time Year
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember

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

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

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