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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Horace

Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

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

Mistake Ridiculous Same
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

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

Guest Storm Willing

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