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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Horace

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

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word

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