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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs

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