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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

Horace

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

Love Ready Sweet
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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