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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

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